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PROPERTY FROM THE HOBART COLLECTION
535
A DINGYAO INCISED ‘LOTUS’ DISH
Northern Song/Jin dynasty
Potted with shallow curved sides supported on a
short foot, the interior finely and freely incised with
a medallion enclosing a leafy lotus spray, encircled
by six lines radiating outwards towards the notched
metal-bound rim, covered overall with an ivory-white
glaze.
6 1/2in (16.7cm) diam.

$4,000 - 6,000
北宋/金 定窰白釉劃蓮紋盤

Provenance:
Virginia Hobart (1876-1958), and thence by descent

Two Ding ware examples incised with central lotus
medallions were exhibited at the Nezu Institute of
Fine Arts, Tokyo, and illustrated in the exhibition
catalogue, White Porcelain of Ding Yao, Tokyo,
1983, cat. nos. 130 and 131; and another example
from the Heeramaneck Collection, is illustrated in
Jan Wirgin, Sung Ceramic Designs, Stockholm,
1970, pl. 58c. A similar example, dated to the Jin
period, was included in the exhibition Decorated
Porcelains of Dingzhou: White Ding wares from the
collection of the National Palace Museum (Taipei,
535 2014), II-38, p. 83.

PROPERTY FROM THE HOBART COLLECTION
536 Y
A YAOZHOU CELADON ‘LOTUS POND’ BOWL
Northern Song/Jin dynasty
Of wide conical form, supported on a low foot
ring encircling the slightly convex foot, the interior
impressed with the scene of a lotus pond with two
fish and two ducks swimming among aquatic plants,
below a foliate scroll band, the exterior with incised
lines below the rim, covered overall with an olive-
green glaze, the rim bound in silver, wood stand.
5 7/8in (15cm) diam. (2).
$7,000 - 10,000

北宋/金 耀州窰青釉印蓮塘鴛鴦紋笠式盌

Provenance:
Virginia Hobart (1876-1958), and thence by descent

The decoration of a leaf scroll band above ducks
in a lotus pond on this conical bowl is similar to
that on a group of bowls molded with six shallow
lobes. For excavated examples, dated to the middle
Song period, see Shaanxi Tongchuan Yaozhou Yao,
Beijing, 1965, pp.20-21, Fig. 13.2, p. 29, Fig. 18.5
and Pl. IX, 5 and 6. An example of the group in the
Baur Collection was illustrated and dated to the
late Northern Song dynasty by Jan Wirgin in ‘Sung
Ceramic Designs,’ Bulletin of the Museum of Far
Eastern Art, vol. 42, 1970, pp. 35-37 and Plate 8h.
John Ayers dated the Bauer bowl a bit more broadly
to the Song or Jin dynasty, 12th century in Chinese
Ceramics in the Baur Collection, Geneva, 1999, vol.
536 1, no. 11, p. 53. He Li also favors a Jin dynasty date
for the bowl with a goose swimming amid waves in
Chinese Ceramics: A New Comprehensive Survey,
New York, 1996, no. 235, p. 173 and p. 201.
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