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15. A Quatrefoil Dish with Barbed Rim
Five Dynasties – Early Northern Song Dynasty, A.D. 10th Century
Ding kilns
with shallow rounded sides flaring out from the slightly recessed plain central medallion and rising
to a lipless rim neatly pared into four wide lotus-petal brackets, covered with a lustrous clear
glaze inside and out, showing ‘tear marks’ on the underside where the glaze pools and resting on
a square-cut low ring foot with chamfered edge, the flat base and foot rim with a casual streak of
glaze but largely unglazed, showing the fine white porcelain.
Diameter 6 ⁄8 inches (16.2 cm)
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An early Dingyao white porcelain dish of very similar form on a similar low, square-cut ring foot, excavated at the site of
the Ding kilns in Quyang, Hebei province, is illustrated in the catalogue of the special exhibition organized by the Museum
of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, Teiyō: yūganaru shiro no sekai—yōshi hakkutsu seika ten (Ding Ware: The World of White
Elegance—Recent Archaeological Findings), Kawasaki, 2013, pp. 100–101, no. 5.
Compare also the very similar early Dingyao white porcelain dish on low foot excavated in 1964 at Chigangchong, Changsha
city, Hunan province, illustrated by Zhang (ed.), Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji (Complete Collection of Ceramic Art Unearthed
in China), Vol. 13: Hubei, Hunan, Beijing, 2008, p. 211, no. 211.
五代－北宋初年 定窰白瓷四瓣稜口盤 徑16.2厘米