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865 A RARE DING PERSIMMON-GLAZED 北宋ǭ定窯柿釉葵ऑ盌
HEXAFOIL BOWL
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1127) Ϝ源
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The bowl has rounded flared sides that rise from the small knife-cut
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foot to the notched, petal-lobed rim, and is covered overall with a 藍理捷
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glaze of rich, slightly lustrous reddish-brown color that thins on the
rim and also covers the base.
6¬ in. (16.8 cm.) diam., Japanese double wood box
$70,000-100,000
PROVENANCE:
Sheldon L. and Barbara R. Breitbart Collection, New York.
Property from the Breitbart Collection; Sotheby’s New York,
16 September 2014, lot 105.
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4837.

Persimmon glazes were made at several northern Chinese kilns in S. Kwan, Song Ceramics from the Kwan Collection, Hong Kong, 1994,
the Song and early Jin periods, including the Ding and Yaozhou pp. 82-83, no. 23, and the Ding persimmon-brown glazed bowl of
kilns, and were particularly admired on forms associated with slightly larger size in the Princeton Art Museum illustrated by
the tea ceremony. It is noted in Cao Zhao’s 1388 publication Z. Kwok, The Eternal Feast: Banqueting in Chinese Art from the 10th
Gegu Yaolun (The Essential Criteria of Antiques) that ‘purple’ (i.e. to 14th Century, Princeton, 2019, p. 170, no. 41.
persimmon) and black Ding wares were even more expensive than
white Ding wares (see Sir Percival David, Chinese Connoisseurship - A persimmon-glazed bowl of this form found at the Ding kiln site
The Ko Ku Yao Lun, London, 1971, p. 141). is illustrated in Ding Ware: The World of White Elegance – Recent
Archaeological Findings, The Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka,
A similar Ding persimmon-glazed bowl, also with a petal-lobed 2013, pp. 162-163, no. 36, where it is dated mid-Northern
rim, is in the Freer Gallery of Art, illustrated by J. A. Pope, et. al., Song dynasty.
in The World’s Great Collections: Oriental Ceramics, vol. 9, The Freer

Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Tokyo, 1972, no. 62. Other Ding
persimmon-glazed bowls include the example illustrated by

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