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The Property of a Lady 女士藏品
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A DINGYAO SQUARE DISH
Liao/Northern Song Dynasty
The four sides tapering to a roliate rim, moulded in relief in the interior
with four intertwined leaves beneath individually-fluted petals, covered
overall with a rich creamy white glaze ecept for the base, revealing the
high-fired biscuit body.
12.1cm (4 3/4in) wide.

£30,000 - 40,000
CNY270,000 - 350,000
遼/北宋 定窯白釉印花四方花口盤

Provenance: The Honorable Mr. Justice Robert Tang Kwok-ching,
SBS, The Xiwenguozhai Collection, Hong Kong
Marchant, London
A London private collection

Published and Illustrated: Marchant, Chinese Ceramics Han to Song,
London, 2018, no.11
來源：香港大紫荊勳章受勳者鄧楨法官，喜聞過齋舊藏
英國倫敦古董商，Marchant
英國倫敦私人收藏

展覽著錄：英國倫敦，Marchant，《中國陶瓷：由漢至宋》，2018年，
編號11

The shape of this dish imitates gold and silver wares and the decorations in the exhibition Ceramics of the Liao Dynasty: formerly The
is also reminiscent of high relief repoussé decoration on gold and silver Hayashibara Museum Collection, Tokyo, 2012, no.131; another
wares. A shard of Ding square dish of similar form but decorated with related dish with four flutes and gently lobed corners, in the Carl
a pair of confronted butterflies was found at the Ding kiln site and Kempe Collection, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm,
illustrated in Selection of Ding Ware-the Palace Museum’s Collection is illustrated by W.Watson, Tang and Liao Ceramics, Munich, 1984,
and Archaeological Excavation, Beijing, 2012, pp.68-9, no.20.fig.1. p.240, no.295.

A set of six slightly smaller dishes of this design with similar fluting in Compare with a similar pair of square Dingyao dishes, Song dynasty,
the cavetto was included by Y.Inouye, N.Maesaka and K.Nakamura, which were sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 30 May 2018, lot 2925.

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