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1149 VARIOUS PROPERTIES

1150 1149
A SMALL GLAZED MOLDED WHITE-
162 WARE SQUARE DISH

LIAO DYNASTY (AD 907-1125)
The center is molded with a fower-flled cash-
shaped medallion surrounded by fower sprays,
all below fared petal-shaped sides molded with
similar fower sprays. The dish is covered inside
and out with a clear glaze.
4Ω in. (11.5 cm.) square, box

$3,000-5,000

A fragment of a dish that appears to be a
prototype of the present lot, dated late Tang
dynasty to Five dynasties, was excavated from the
Ding kiln site in Quyang county, Hebei province,
and is illustrated in Selection of Ding Ware: the
Palace Museum’s Collection and Archaeological
Excavation, Beijing, 2012, no. 20.

Compare a similar dish, dated to the Liao dynasty,
but molded with a duck in the well, illustrated by
B. Gyllensvärd in Chinese Ceramics in the Carl
Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1965 p. 126, no.
390. See, also, a pair of similar dishes sold at
Christie’s New York, 26 September 2016, lot 1316.
遼 白釉印花方碟

1150
AN UNUSUAL QINGBAI
‘CHRYSANTHEMUM’ DISH

SOUTHERN SONG-YUAN DYNASTY
(1127-1368)
The shallow dish has widely fared sides that rise
to the shallow, scalloped sides, and is incised in the
center with a fower sprig within a double circle,
and relief-decorated with lotus fowers amidst
scrolls on the everted rim with scalloped edge. The
dish is covered overall with a pale aqua-blue glaze
that pools in the recesses and stops neatly at the
unglazed base.
7Ω in. (19 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box

$4,000-6,000

Compare the similar qingbai dish sold at
Sotheby’s London, 17 April 1985, lot 170 (part).
南宋/元 青白菊瓣盤