J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
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Chinese Ceramics in Black and White
March 20–April 10, 2010
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A CARVED DINGYAO WHITE PORCELAIN FOLIATE BOWL
Northern Song Dynasty (A.D. 960–1127)
the gently rounded wide flaring sides rising from a square-cut low ring foot, divided into six petal-lobes by incised radiating lines on the exterior rising to shallow notches around the rim and with corresponding shallow raised ribs on the interior, freely carved on the interior with a large lotus bloom rising on a slender stalk extending across the recessed central medallion, with a scallop-edged lotus leaf shown in profile and long stems bearing curly leaves and two smaller lotus blooms, all loosely arranged to fill the sides below an incised line border, with a transparent glaze of pale ivory tone all over, gathering in characteristic ‘tear marks’ on the exterior, the lip rim unglazed exposing the fine white porcelain.
Diameter 83⁄8 inches (21.3 cm)
A Dingyao white porcelain bowl of similar form carved with a very similar lotus pattern in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is published in Illustrated Catalogue of Sung Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum: Ting Ware and Ting-Type Ware, Taipei, 1973, no. 19. Another Dingyao bowl of related form carved with a very similar pattern in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is illustrated by Tseng and Dart in The Charles B. Hoyt Collection in the Museum of Fine Arts: Boston, Vol. II, Boston, 1972, no. 27. Compare also the conical Dingyao bowl carved with a very similar lotus design in the Baur Collection, Geneva, illustrated by Ayers, The Baur Collection, Vol. I, Geneva, 1968, no. A11.
北宋 定窰白瓷劃花葵口碗 徑 21.3 厘米
