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15. A Large Carved Dingyao P orcelain Bowl
Northern Song Dynasty (A.D. 960–1127)

with deep rounded sides flaring to a wide upturned rim, freely incised on the interior with a large
open lotus bloom rising on a leafy stalk extending across the center of the bowl from a scallop-
edged lily pad shown in profile below a spray of curling leaves, the opposite side with two smaller
lotus blooms on leafy stalks, the exterior divided into six plain petal-lobes by lightly incised vertical
lines rising from the high ring foot towards shallow notches on the rim, covered inside and out
with a translucent glaze of ivory tone continuing over the foot and recessed base and showing
characteristic ‘tear marks’ on the exterior, the rim wiped clean of glaze before firing, showing the
fine white porcelain.

Diameter 9 ⁄2 inches (24.1 cm)
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Carved Dingyao bowls of this deep form and large size are very rare, but the lotus design on the interior is a classic pattern
found on Dingyao bowls of similar petal-lobed form but of shallower profile and slightly smaller size.
A Dingyao petal-lobed bowl of slightly smaller size from the Qing court collection similarly carved with this pattern on the
interior is illustrated in Gugong bowuyuan cang wenwu zhenpin quanji (32) Liang song ciqi, shang (The Complete Collection
of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Vol. 32, Porcelain of the Song Dynasty I), Hong Kong, 1996, p. 60, no. 52; another
example of similar but shallower and slightly smaller form in the National Palace Museum, Taipei is published in Illustrated
Catalogue of Sung Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum: Ting Ware and Ting-Type Ware, Taipei, 1973, no. 18; and
another carved Dingyao bowl of similar but slightly smaller and less deep form in the British Museum, London, from the
Oppenheim Collection, is illustrated in The World’s Great Collections: Oriental Ceramics, Vol. 5, The British Museum, London,
Tokyo, 1981, col. pl. 20.

北宋 定窯刻花大碗 徑 24.1 厘米