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A DINGYAO CARVED LOBED ‘LOTUS’ DISH A CIZHOU SLIP-DECORATED BALUSTER VASE, MEIPING
Song/Jin Dynasty Jin Dynasty
The shallow bowl thinly potted with a hexalobed rim, the interior finely Of elegant elongated form with tapering mouth rim, decorated with
carved on the sides and across the well with exquisite curling lotus concentric horizontal bands encircling the body at intervals, on a
blossoms on winding foliate stems, all covered with a rich creamy cream slip ground.
glaze, fitted box. 38cm (15in) high.
20.2cm (8in) diam. (2).
£2,500 - 4,000
£6,000 - 8,000 HK$24,000 - 39,000
HK$59,000 - 78,000 CNY22,000 - 35,000
CNY53,000 - 71,000
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Compare with a mallow-petal plate with similarly carved floral design A JIAN WARE ‘HARE’S FUR’ TEA BOWL
in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection Song Dynasty
of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelain of the Song Dynasty Covered overall with a lustrous black glaze suffused with russet
(I), Hong Kong, 1996, p.92, no.73. streaks, the base inscribed with the characters gongyu.
12.6cm (5in) diam.
£1,500 - 2,000
HK$15,000 - 20,000
CNY13,000 - 18,000

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