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The Property of a Lady 女士藏品
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A SMALL DINGYAO ‘LOTUS’ BOWL
Northern Song Dynasty
Finely potted with thin deep rounded sides rising from a short straight
foot, the interior carved with a single lotus flower spray amidst scrolling
foliage, all covered with a creamy ivory-white glaze.
9cm (3 1/2in) diam.
£30,000 - 40,000
CNY270,000 - 350,000
北宋 定窯白釉刻蓮紋小盌

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.13

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13

A comparable Dingyao cup is illustrated by R.Krahl, Chinese Ceramics
from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994, vol.1, pp.204-205,
no.361; another related Dingyao bowl, Song dynasty, is illustrated
in Bright as Silver White as Snow: Chinese White Ceramics from
Late Tang to Yuan Dynasty, Examples from the Kai-Yin Lo Collection,
Hong Kong, 1998, pp.122-123, pl.19; see also a further example
of a Dingyao bowl in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York is
illustrated by S.G.Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics,
New York, 1975, p.89, no.82.

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