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17. A Dingyao P orcelain Box And Cover
Northern Song Dynasty (A.D. 960–1127)

of circular form with slightly tapered narrow flat sides, the underside angled in towards a neatly
carved small ring foot enclosing a recessed base, the close-fitting cover very slightly domed and
with a crisp edge above a very thin groove around the upper border of the top repeated around the
lower border of the base, the rims and edge of the foot unglazed, the inside and outside of the box
covered with a glossy clear translucent glaze over the white porcelain body showing a milk-white
tone overall.
Diameter 3 ⁄8 inches (8 cm)
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A very similar Dingyao box is published by Sullivan, Chinese Ceramics, Bronzes and Jades in the Collection of Sir Alan and Lady
Barlow, London, 1963, no. C. 211, illustrated as pl. 44a, with a detail of the base illustrated together with a fragment from
the Ding kilns illustrated pl. 144d; and with caption including the exhibition history on pp. 54–55.
Another similar Song white porcelain box and cover is illustrated by Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection,
Volume Three (II), London, 2006, p. 435, no. 1433, where the author cites a similar box and cover discovered in 1985
among a group of Ding white porcelains in a tomb at Haidan, Beijing municipality, attributed to the early Jin period (A.D.
1125–1160), illustrated in Treasures from a Swallow Garden: Inaugural Exhibit of the Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art and
Archaeology at Peking University, Beijing, 1992, no. 145.
Compare also the similar Dingyao box and cover of slightly larger size illustrated in The World’s Great Collections: Oriental
Ceramics, Vol. 9, The Freer Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Tokyo, 1981, pl. 56.

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