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167-PAI TING YAO BOWL (Sung)
This shallow dish or wide bowl might perhaps better be
denomina ted a plaque. It is of sonorous porcelain, baked
in accordance with the Ting Yao practice bottom upwards,
and the rim therefore is bound in copper. The plaque or
bowl is of ovoidal outline and springs from a short and wide
foot. The exterior plain, the interior is adorned with a wide
band of highly conventionalized peony ornamentation, sep-
arated by a narrow key-fret border from a bottom medal-
lion of conventionalized lotus forms, the whole appearing
in delicate relief; the method of decoration was compression
of the paste over a mold. Both surfaces are glazed in a
lunminous ivory tone.
Diameter, 12 inches.
( Illustrated)

168-PAI TING YAO BOWL (Sung)
Deep-dish form, with a low foot; the porcelain of a re-
pressed sonority; the rim is bound in copper, the dish hav-
ing been fired with the bottom upwards, as was so generally
the case in the production of this ware. The interior of
the bottom is occupied by a medallion, within a thunder-
scroll border, embracing two carp among lotus flowers,
while the curve of the side displays a dragon and peony
ornamentation, which in turn is succeeded by a second border
of the thunder-scroll, the decoration being accomplished
by impression over a mold. Exterior plain, and both sur-
faces covered with a luminous glaze in the hue of a white
flour-paste, slightly tinged toward cream.
Diameter, 11% inches.
(Illustrated)