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162 This dish is a fine example of a classic Northern Song/Jin period Ding
A fine Dingyao ‘swimming ducks’ carved dish ware. Typical of high quality Ding wares, the present lot is well potted,
Northern Song/Jin Dynasty has a well-cut short narrow foot and a smooth white body that is
Raised on a narrow foot ring, the interior crisply and spontaneously covered with a clear, spotless, ivory-toned glaze. The decoration of a
carved with a pair of ducks swimming side by side in a pond beside pair of ducks on a pond with plants is elegantly incised. The theme of
tall leafy stems, covered overall in a pale greenish-white glaze. a pair of ducks was popular in Chinese art and culture, particularly for
21.3cm diam. weddings, as pairs of ducks symbolise marital harmony.

HK$600,000 - 900,000 Two examples of Ding dishes with very similar form and decoration
US$77,000 - 120,000 are in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Decorated
Porcelains of Dingzhou, White Ding Wares from the Collection of the
北宋/金 定窯白釉劃花蓮塘雙鳧紋折腰盤 National Palace Museum, Taipei, 2014, pp.124-125, no.74 (fig.1) and
75. Other similar Northern Song Dingyao dishes decorated with pairs
of ducks swimming beside reeds and tall leafy plants include one in the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and another formerly in the Carl Kempe
Collection, illustrated by Jan Wirgin, Sung Ceramic Designs, London,
1970, pl.65 and 66a.

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