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EARLY CHINESE WHITE WARES
The Ronald W. Longsdorf Collection
September 11 - October 3, 2015
19.
A CONICAL BOWL WITH FIVE-POINT FOLIATE RIM
Late Tang Dynasty-Five Dynasties, A.D. 10th Century
North China
with very gently rounded flaring sides rising from a flat floor to a knife-cut rim divided into five bracket-lobes each centered with a sharp point, showing long thin horizontal ‘wheel marks’ on the exterior, covered with a transparent glaze of pale yellowish-ivory tint extending to the edge of the wide ring foot with slightly splayed narrow sides, the rim of the foot and the recessed base unglazed, exposing the white porcelain body.
Diameter 8 1⁄8 inches (20.7 cm)
Compare the slightly smaller white dish with shallow rounded sides rising to a similar five-point foliate rim, discovered in 1977 in a Tang dynasty tomb at Beixing village, Jingxing county, Shjiazhuang city and now in the Jingxing County Office for Management of Cultural Relics, illustrated by Zhang (ed.) in Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji (Complete Collection of Ceramic Art Unearthed in China), Vol. 3: Hebei, Beijing, 2008, p. 43, no. 43.
Compare also the small white dish with a similar knife-cut five-pointed rim, illustrated in the catalogue of the collection of Kai-Yin Lo, Ru yin si xue: Zhongguo wan Tang zhi Yuan dai baici shangxi (Bright as Silver, White as Snow: Chinese White Ceramics from Late Tang to Yuan Dynasty), Hong Kong, 1998, pp. 98-99, pl. 7.
晚唐－五代 北方白瓷五棱斗笠形碗 徑 20.7 厘米
