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A FINE DING BLACK-GLAZED RUSSET- ٬೐ ೜⒌㷗㕳⽥ᐾ⩈۵ᇽ⥈↲
SPLASHED HEXAFOIL DISH
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (960-1127) ϝᬝ
ᯧஇ☆՞Ⅷ⻦
The dish is delicately potted with angular sides rising to a lobed
rim supported on a short foot, covered inside and out with a ᫉⎾㿳㞏ݏᷪ卿஄㑷㬖⫭卿≢⫭వ⡿卿೅⺧㕇㖔卿ݰۄݱ௛໸
lustrous black glaze streaked with russet splashes, the glaze thinning
⚨㿳㞏଍⎏⁞ᇨǯ໸⚨⎊㞏଍അἃ㇡῟卿஄㑷ᶕ㞏卿㿳໸଍ߺ
to a russet brown colour towards the mouth. The foot ring is ⏟ं卿փ῟ἃԖ卿㑷ᯒӶᙼ㞏卿㬖߅వ⓷⡿⎊⎏⫭கǯ⯝໸⚨
unglazed, exposing the fine white body.
7 º in. (18.4 cm.) diam., box ⎊㞏଍Ӭ᧙卿㿳໸଍ऱ᧙଍೅ᥑ⺧卿ݣᏛ㖔ႛǯǸ㿳໸ǹ଍㬳
჎☮ཐ卿Ⅷ⧎☶ᄟ≾⯍ᬘᇙㅳᮃ⚨ࣿ໶⚨଍ᝤ≾ǯᚺߝ㦶⻦།
HK$5,000,000-8,000,000 US$650,000-1,000,000 ᝨᛑஙǶᡟऒ㇝㋏Ƿԋᑨ߅厍Ǹ⡻໸ⰰ⡻卿ᝳಳ໸ⰰ㿳ൈᶜ卿
கك⎊卿ݯ܎㵶ᙻ⎊໸ǯǹ⊐᫉ज㇦᚝ᙻᚺջߝឆ卿㿳໸Ⴁ⣌
PROVENANCE
A French private collection ᳅ई⻦།Ⅷ㇬卿܎㢲≾⯍㑖㑘⎊໸ǯ
Black-glazed Ding wares are among the rarest types of ᚝ᙻᶴջ卿ԋஇ㪃႙Ⴁ㧷ං㉹῟㵶ᵐ㿳ㆁ㞏㪃≢卿ֿᅠ⯍࢈໬
Song-dynasty ceramics, arguably even rarer than imperial ࢦӬӽ⡕卿ᯇ࢈໸⚨Ꮭ㲛ݎࠛ῟߅ݏᷪᶜ㿳⎏㿳㞏卿ഭ໸㿳㞏
Ru and Guan wares. Produced in the late eleventh or early ଍⎏༳⧻㑪ঀࣿㅳה᭢ჹ卿ԆᎰἃݯձⵖ࢈⚨ऑᚚᇌ֎῟⎏ཌ
twelfth century, this hexafoil dish displays all the hallmarks
of classical black-glazed Ding ware, from the white porcelain ㎜ǯ⏎ӳᏒ㇦⎏ㆁⰰᙚ⡠卿֎ൈ㽟㻌㺠ᙚ卿ᛓᙻ⚨῟߿ங㞏㬷
body to its thin walls and light weight, to its lustrous glaze ᙼ㐽ㆁࢇ൚க⩧Ꮀǯࢇ൚க࠼Ի᭘ࢇ㦜卿῟ㅳᇌ१→⡚ㆁⰰǯ
and sparse embellishment, to its unglazed foot and partially ங࢈ᙹ⚨ऑԋ卿໸⚨፽ᛓ㲛ٖս㽟㻌ᙚ㿽⣧㿳㞏଍⎏⚨⡑ǯ
glazed base. While white Ding bowls were usually fired upside
down with fully glazed foot rings, dark-glazed Ding bowls ⯅໩ྒྷ՞⯠⻦Ӭ։໸⚨㿳㞏ㆁᙚᙟ⛹⎾卿㫍଍ᆨӶऱ卿ֿ㞏᭮Ǯ
were, by contrast, fired right side up, their rims fully glazed but ⫭கǮ㞒㞔✙⁞ᇨ卿㛢⯝ទ⏎㬳჎⏟ַ卿 ჺ ᝲ ᚚᙻ⡥
their foot rings wiped free of glaze before firing, revealing the ⡙צ೥ᇑᐽ㐈卿ᐽ৅ ⽚ǯ
smooth, fine-grained porcelain body.
The russet splashes embellishing the current dish, simulating
‘partridge-feather’ mottles, were produced by applying russet-
brown slip to the surface of the glaze before firing. An oxide
of iron was added to the slip to impart the russet colour. So
prized were black Ding wares, that in 1388 the Ming dynasty
connoisseur Cao Zhao stated in his Gegu Yaolun (Essential
Criteria of Antiquities), “There is [also] brown Ding, whose
colour is purplish brown, and there is black Ding, whose colour
is lacquer black; [both] have pure white bodies; [their] prices
exceed those of white Ding”.
Compare to a Ding black-glazed russet-splashed conical bowl,
sharing very similar features such as thin walls, light weight,
fine-grained body, and lustrous black glaze which thins to
brown on the mouth, from the Linyushanren Collection, sold at
Christie’s New York, 22 March 2018, lot 506.

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