J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
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Chinese Porcelain and Silver in the Song Dynasty
March 18 - April 8, 2002
17.
A MOULDED DINGYAO WHITE PORCELAIN
CHRYSANTHEMUM-SHAPED DISH
Song Dynasty, A.D. 13th Century
decorated in finely detailed relief with a recumbent deer shown with a fluttering ribbon tied around its neck, surrounded by dense foliage and flowers of the four seasons filling the broad flat center of the dish, the shallow well moulded with chrysanthemum-petal fluting on the interior, decorated in thread relief with a repeating scroll motif on alternating petals, rising to a flat flaring rim moulded with overlapping petal tips and clustered stamens, all within a raised rim of scalloped form, the underside plain and the whole resting on a neatly pared shallow ring foot, covered all over with a transparent glaze of grayish cream-white color, the lip rim left unglazed revealing the fine white body.
Diameter 8 3⁄8 inches (21.2 cm)
A Dingyao dish of this same form and pattern from the Imperial Collection is in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, published in the Illustrated Catalogue of Sung Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, Ting Ware and Ting-type Ware, Taipei, 1973, no. 70.
Compare also the smaller chrysanthemum-shaped Dingyao dish moulded with a standing deer amidst blossoming plants, from the Collections of Lt.-Col. and Mrs. W. B. R. Neave-Hill, illustrated by Wirgin in Sung Ceramic Designs, Stockholm, 1970, pl. 102 b.
A Song silver dish of this same distinctive form is illustrated in the catalogue of the exhibition shown at the Rietberg Museum entitled Chinesisches Gold und Silber: Die Sammlung Pierre Uldry, Zurich 1994, no. 271
17.
A MOULDED DINGYAO WHITE PORCELAIN
CHRYSANTHEMUM-SHAPED DISH
Song Dynasty, A.D. 13th Century
Diameter 8 3⁄8 inches (21.2 cm)