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7225
A white glazed porcelain tea bowl
North China, late Tang/Five dynasties
Thickly potted with a rolled rim and wide shallow well supported on a wide
foot ring surrounding a very shallow recessed base, the glaze covering
the interior and most of the exterior walls displaying a very faint blue-green
tinge as it stops unevenly above the foot, exposing the hard white fabric.
5 3/4in (14.7cm) diameter
$3,000 - 5,000

For a xing ware dish of similar form but slightly smaller size in the 7225
Idemitsu Museum of Art, see Li Zhiyin and others, Chinese Ceramics
from the Paleolithic Period through the Qing dynasty 2010, p.543,
pl. 10.9 (14.0cm diameter). The authors also mention that Xing type
ceramics were, with Yue and Changsha wares, the three most prevalent
ceramics exported from China from the eighth to late tenth century. For
another white ware bowl of similar shape and size, found in Pagerrejo,
Wonosobbo, Central Java, and ascribed to the ninth century, see
ORIENTAL CERAMICS The World’s Great Collections, Vol. 3: Museum
Pusat, Jakarta, black and white plate 60 (14.0cm diameter).

7226
A white ware bowl
Northern Song dynasty
Its wide curving well rising from a slightly recessed floor and the
exterior rim accented with a rounded lip, the pale straw colored glaze
covering the interior and forming uneven welts on the exterior walls,
stopping above the wedged foot and shallow recessed base to
expose a dense white clay fabric.
8in (20.2cm) diameter
$6,000 - 8,000

The raised ridge accenting the exterior rim, the glaze drips on the 7226
exterior walls and the dense fabric suggest this bowl was either fired
at or inspired by Ding wares of the late 10th or 11th century. For
examples of Dingyao bowls from the Kai-yin Lo Collection, see Bright
as Silver White as Snow: Chinese White Ceramics from Late Tang to
Yuan Dynasty, 1998, plates 8-10, pp. 100-104.

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