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16. A Carved Dingyao P orcelain Dish
Northern Song Dynasty (A.D. 960–1127)

decorated on the interior with a stylized lotus spray bearing one large and one smaller bloom
on a single stem sprouting curly leaves, the freely drawn design filling the flat central medallion
enclosed by narrow flaring straight sides rising from a chamfered foot, covered inside and out with
a clear translucent glaze continuing over the foot and very slightly recessed base, the edge of the
mouth rim unglazed, showing the fine white porcelain.

Diameter 5 ⁄16 inches (12.5 cm)
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A Dingyao dish of this form and size in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, carved with a similar lotus and foliage motif
is illustrated in Dingyao baici tezhan tulu (Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Ting Ware Porcelain), Taipei, 1987, no. 113.
Compare also the Dingyao dish of related form, similarly carved with a lotus spray curved to fill the flat interior, illustrated
by Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Volume One, London, 1994, p. 204, no. 358, where the author
cites a similar carved Dingyao dish discovered in a tomb dated by epitaph between A.D. 1153 and A.D. 1160, illustrated in
line drawings in Wenwu, 1988, No. 7, p. 62, fig. 16-5.
北宋 定窯刻花碟 徑 12.5 厘米