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A CARVED DING DISH
NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY
The dish has shallow sides rounding to the fattened, everted rim, and the interior is carved
with a leafy stem bearing a single lotus. The dish is covered inside and out with a glaze of ivory
tone that also covers the base.
8 in. (20.3 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box
$30,000-50,000
Compare the Ding dish of similar form and with similar incised lotus decoration, but of larger
size (30.5 cm. diam.), in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of
Treasures of the Palace Museum - 32 - Porcelain of the Song Dynasty (I), Hong Kong, 1996,
p. 81, no. 72. Dishes of this form, with fattened rims and a low ridge running around the edge
appear to be based on silver prototypes, such as the Song silver dish engraved with dragons
sold at Christie’s New York, 20 September 2002, lot 239.
北宋/金 定窯刻萱草紋盤
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