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PROPERTY FROM A PRINCELY COLLECTION
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A SMALL DING CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (960-1127)
The box has straight sides and a slightly domed cover, and is covered overall,
except for the fat base, with a glaze of ivory tone.
2¬ in. (6.7 cm.) diam.
$8,000-12,000

PROVENANCE
Dr. Johan Carl Kempe (1884-1967) Collection, Sweden.
Early Chinese White, Green and Black Wares; Sotheby’s London, 14 May 2008,
lot 261.
LITERATURE
Hsing-Yao and Ting-Yao, Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, No. 25,
Stockholm, 1953, pl. 104, fg. 89.
B. Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964,
pl. 404.
北宋 定窯小圓盒

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