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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION
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A VERY RARE AND IMPORTANT BROWN-GLAZED DINGYAO MOLDED CONICAL BOWL
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1279)

The bowl has a widely fared body crisply molded on the interior with a lotus plant and
sagittaria sagittifolia in the center below two fsh swimming amidst further lotus plants, sagittaria
sagittifolila, water weeds and grasses on the sides, and is covered overall with a glaze of ochre-
brown color that stops at the unglazed rim exposing the fne white body and continues over
the shallow foot ring to cover the base.
6¿ in. (15.6 cm.) diam.

$600,000-800,000

PROVENANCE:

Carl Kempe (1884-1967) Collection, Ekolsund, Sweden, no. 333.
J.J. Lally & Co., New York, 2010, no. 4479.

EXHIBITED:

New York, J.J. Lally & Co., Chinese Ceramics in Black and White, 2010, no. 23.

LITERATURE:

B. Gyllensvxrd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, p. 134, no.
421.
J. Wirgin, ‘Sung Ceramic Designs’, B.M.F.E.A., No. 42, Stockholm, 1970, pl. 90-a.
Chinese Ceramic Treasures: A Selection from the Ulricehamn East Asian Museum, Including the Carl
Kempe Collection, Ulricehamn, 2002, pl. 623.
J.J. Lally & Co., Chinese Ceramics in Black and White, New York, 2010, no. 23.
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