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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION 北宋 定窰劃荷塘鴛鴦折腰盤
A CARVED DINGYAO 'MANDARIN DUCKS' DISH, 來源：
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY David Goldstein 醫生收藏
21.3 cm 藍理捷，紐約
十面靈璧山居收藏，編號LL37
PROVENANCE
Collection of Dr David Goldstein, New York. 展覽：
J.J. Lally & Co., New York. 《Early Chinese Ceramics: An American Private
The Ten-Views Lingbi Rock Retreat Collection, coll. no. LL37.
Collection》，藍理捷，2005年，紐約，編號32
EXHIBITED
Early Chinese Ceramics: An American Private Collection, J.J.
Lally & Co. New York, 2005, cat. no. 32.
HK$ 500,000-700,000
US$ 64,000-89,500

The present dish, fluently incised with one of the classic
designs of a pair of waterfowl in a pond, displays the
characteristics attributed to the finest Ding wares.
Celebrated for their thin potting, fine near-white body which
did not require an application of slip and an ivory-coloured
glaze which tends to run down in somewhat darker 'tears',
Ding wares were ranked among the 'five great wares' of
the Song, a term coined by collectors of the Ming and
Qing dynasties. The high quality of this bowl is evident
in its feather-light weight body which has been expertly
evenly glazed. Ding designs generally display a high level of
naturalness and fluidity, but the maker of this bowl appears
to have been particularly skilled at rendering his lines in a
spontaneous manner, creating a decoration that is precise
yet particularly free in the execution.
Three dishes of comparable form and pattern, attributed to
the Northern Song to Jin dynasty, are included in Decorated
Porcelains of Dingzhou. White Ding wares from the collection
of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 2014, cat. nos II-73,
II-74, and II-75.

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