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19. A Conical Bowl with Five-P oint F oliate Rim
Late Tang Dynasty – Five Dynasties, A.D. 10th Century
North China
with very gently rounded flaring sides rising from a flat floor to a knife-cut rim divided into five
bracket-lobes each centered with a sharp point, showing long thin horizontal ‘wheel marks’ on
the exterior, covered with a transparent glaze of pale yellowish-ivory tint extending to the edge
of the wide ring foot with slightly splayed narrow sides, the rim of the foot and the recessed base
unglazed, exposing the white porcelain body.
Diameter 8 ⁄8 inches (20.7 cm)
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Compare the slightly smaller white dish with shallow rounded sides rising to a similar five-point foliate rim, discovered in
1977 in a Tang dynasty tomb at Beixing village, Jingxing county, Shjiazhuang city and now in the Jingxing County Office for
Management of Cultural Relics, illustrated by Zhang (ed.) in Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji (Complete Collection of Ceramic Art
Unearthed in China), Vol. 3: Hebei, Beijing, 2008, p. 43, no. 43.
Compare also the small white dish with a similar knife-cut five-pointed rim, illustrated in the catalogue of the collection
of Kai-Yin Lo, Ru yin si xue: Zhongguo wan Tang zhi Yuan dai baici shangxi (Bright as Silver, White as Snow: Chinese White
Ceramics from Late Tang to Yuan Dynasty), Hong Kong, 1998, pp. 98–99, pl. 7.
晚唐－五代 北方白瓷五棱斗笠形碗 徑 20.7厘米