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867 A CARVED DING ‘DAYLILY’ BOWL 北宋 金ǭ十Հ 十Ӳ世紀ǭ
NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY 定窯白釉劃花萱草紋盌
The bowl has rounded sides that rise from the narrow foot and
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flaring slightly to the unglazed rim, and is boldly carved in the
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interior with a daylily spray bearing three large blossoms with
tightly curled leaves. It is covered overall with an ivory-tinted
clear glaze. A very similar Ding ‘daylily’ bowl, but with a band at the rim,
from the Qing Court Collection and now in the Palace Museum,
8¿ in. (20.7 cm.) diam., cloth box
Beijing, is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the
$40,000-60,000 Palace Museum - 32 - Porcelain of the Song Dynasty (I), Hong Kong,
1996, p. 60, no. 52. Another Ding bowl carved with a daylily
PROVENANCE:
spray on the interior is in the National Palace Museum, Taipei,
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4739.
and illustrated in Dingzhou huaci: yuancang Dingyao xi baici tezhan
(Decorated Porcelains of Dingzhou: White Ding Wares from the
Collection of the National Palace Museum), Taipei, 2013, p. 93,
no. II-46.
The result of C-Link Research & Development Ltd.
thermoluminescence test no. 1433ZA08 is consistent with the
dating of this lot.
866 A SMALL GLAZED WHITE PORCELAIN 北宋ǭ白釉蓋盒
BOX AND COVER
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1127) Ϝ源
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The box has straight narrow sides, with the underside angled in
to a small ring foot enclosing a recessed base, and with a slightly
domed cover. The box and cover are covered with a white slip
and a transparent, ivory-tone glaze, which ends in an uneven line
around the foot of the box.
3º in. (8.3 cm.) diam., cloth box
$15,000-25,000
PROVENANCE:
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4845.
Boxes of this shape can also be found in Ding ware. A Ding box
of similar shape is illustrated by R. Krahl in Chinese Ceramics from
the Meiyintang Collection, Volume Three (II), London, 2006, p. 435,
no. 1433, where the author cites a similar box and cover discovered
in 1985 amongst a group of Ding white porcelains from a tomb at
Nanxinzhuang, Haidian district, Beijing municipality, dated to the
early Jin period (AD 1125-1160).
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