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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF A JAPANESE ARTIST
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A DING CARVED ‘LOTUS’ BOWL 北宋 定窯白釉刻蓮紋折沿盌

NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (960-1127)
來源
The bowl is thinly potted with an angular profile, fluidly carved to 日本藝術家（卒於1975年）私人珍藏，此後一直於家族中流
the interior with lotus blossoms and leaves on meandering stems,
covered inside and out with a lustrous glaze of pale ivory tone. 傳至今
The mouth is bound with a metal rim. The base is incised with a 此器造型規整，秀麗典雅，釉色均勻，白中帶牙黃。花卉紋線條簡潔有
collector’s mark qi, ‘seven’. 力，似是任意揮灑的作品，陶匠運刀尤如運筆寫意，加上定窯白釉特有
8 in. (20.3 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box 的溫潤晶瑩，使紋飾更顯得典貴優雅。
HK$300,000-500,000 US$39,000-65,000 北京故宮博物院有一件紋飾與本拍品相似的圓口例子，著錄《定瓷雅集:
故宮博物院珍藏及出土定窑瓷器薈萃》，北京，2012年，頁154-155，
PROVENANCE
Private collection of a Japanese artist (d. 1975), and thence by 圖版60號。另一圓口刻蓮紋例子藏國立故宮博物院，見於《定州花瓷：
descent within the family 院藏定窯系白瓷特展》，台北，2014年，頁88-89，圖版II-42號。
A Ding dish of very similar lotus design but with a rounded rim from
the Palace Museum, Beijing is illustrated in Selection of Ding Ware:
The Palace Museum's Collection and Archaeological Excavation, Beijing,
2012, pp. 154-155, no. 60. Another rounded Ding dish with incised lotus
motifs is in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Tsai
Meifen, Decorated Porcelains of Dingzhou: White Ding Wares from the
collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 2014, pp. 88-89, no.
II-42.

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