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PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTOR
1728
A LARGE CARVED DING FOLIATE-RIMMED BOWL
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1127)
The bowl is fnely carved on the interior with a large lotus blossom and several smaller blossoms borne on
leafy stems, and is covered overall below the unglazed rim with an attractive ivory glaze which pools to a
darker tone within the recesses of the decoration.
9º in. (23.5 cm.) diam.
$120,000-180,000

This bowl is a classic example of Song-dynasty Ding ware, and is the type of bowl that was so greatly
admired by the Chinese court. It is signifcant that a very similar bowl with peony decoration fuently
incised over its six-lobed form is in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, and is
published in the Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Ting Ware White Porcelain, National Palace
Museum, Taipei, 1987, no. 38. A six-lobed bowl with the same incised decoration depicting lotus, as
seen on the present bowl, is in the Palace Museum, Beijing, and illustrated in The Complete Collection
of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 32 - Porcelain of the Song Dynasty (I), Hong Kong, 1996, p. 60, no.
52, where it is noted that the bowl was part of the Qing Court collection. Another bowl with similar
carved lotus decoration, of slightly smaller size (22.2 cm.) in the Falk Collection, was sold at Christie’s
New York, 16 October 2001, lot 52. See, also, the bowl of comparable size (23.2 cm.) with carved lotus
decoration included in the exhibition catalogue, Principal wares of the Song from a private collection,
Eskenazi, London May 2015, no. 3. The rim of the present bowl is more distinctly everted than the rims
of any of the aforementioned bowls.
北宋 定窯白釉刻蓮紋盌

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