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EARLY CHINESE WHITE WARES
The Ronald W. Longsdorf Collection
September 11 - October 3, 2015
17.
A FLOWER-SHAPED DISH
Late Tang Dynasty-Five Dynasties, A.D. 10th Century
Xing kilns
with thinly potted, gently rounded shallow sides rising from a plain center to a flared lipless rim crisply cut into five pairs of rounded petals, covered inside and out with a lustrous clear glaze shading to a yellowish creamy tone on the underside where the glaze gathers in characteristic ‘tear marks’ and ends neatly around the border of a very shallow pared ledge above the low ring foot, the foot and base unglazed, revealing the fine white porcelain.
Diameter 6 3⁄8 inches (16.1 cm)
A very similar early white porcelain flower-shaped dish on low unglazed ring foot in the Meiyintang Collection is illustrated by Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Volume Three (II), London, 2006, pp. 414-415, no. 1414, identified as Xingyao.
Another white porcelain dish of very similar outline, with higher ring foot, excavated in 1956 from the tomb of Madam Zhao Siqian at Haizhou, Yudai river, Xinhailian city, Jiangsu province, dated by epitaph to the fifth year of Dahe (corresponding to A.D. 933) in the Wu Kingdom, is illustrated in Zhongguo taoci quanji (The Complete Works of Chinese Ceramics), Vol. 6: Tang, Five Dynasties, Shanghai, 2000, no. 187.
A set of ten white porcelain dishes of similar form, each inscribed with a ‘guan’ mark on the glazed base discovered in the tomb of Qian Kuan (d. 895) at Lin’an, Zhejiang province, is illustrated in Wan Tang Qian Kuan fufu mu (The Qian Kuan Couple Tombs in Late Tang), Beijing, 2012, col. pls. 2-7, with description on p. 25 and in line drawings on pp. 26-28. Compare also the flower-shaped white porcelain dish on high foot with ‘guan’ mark incised on the glazed base in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in the catalogue of the special exhibition, Dingzhou huaci: yuancang Dingyao xi baici tezhan (Decorated Porcelains of Dingzhou: White Ding Wares from the Collection of the National Palace Museum), Taipei, 2014, p. 37, no. I-18, attributed to the Five Dynasties-Song dynasty, 10th century.
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