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VARIOUS PROPERTIES
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A VERY RARE DING DISH WITH TRACES OF GILT DECORATION
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY
The dish has shallow, rounded sides rising to the fat, everted rim, and the interior bears traces of
gilding with four evenly-spaced characters, shou shan fu hai (mountains of longevity and oceans of
fortune). The dish is covered overall with a lustrous glaze of ivory color below the unglazed mouth rim.
7º in. (18.4 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box
$30,000-50,000

PROVENANCE
Mayuyama & Co., Ltd., Tokyo.
Kitayama Fine Arts, Tokyo.
EXHIBITED
Mayuyama, Tokyo Bijitsu, 8-12 October 1964, p. 14, no. 24.
LITERATURE
Junkichi Mayuyama, Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976, p. 125, no. 361.
Mayuyama, Tokyo Bijitsu, October 1964, p. 14, no. 24.
Gilt-decorated Ding dishes are extremely rare and few appear to have been published. Compare the
gilt-decorated Ding dish in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Selection of Ding Ware: The Palace
Museum’s Collection and Archeological Excavation, Beijing, 2012, pp. 186-86, no. 76. The Palace Museum
dish is of similar shape and size to the present lot, but its gilt-decoration is now indecipherable. The
author notes that only approximately ten gilt-decorated Ding ceramics are in existence and it is very
rare for them to still have traces of the gilding.
北宋 定窯金彩壽山福海盤

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