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EARLY CHINESE WHITE WARES
The Ronald W. Longsdorf Collection
September 11 - October 3, 2015
14.
A QUATREFOIL DISH WITH BARBED RIM
Five Dynasties-Early Northern Song Dynasty, A.D. 10th Century
Ding kilns
with thinly potted sides gently rounded and flaring out from the flat center to an angled rim neatly pared to form four wide lotus-petal brackets, covered with a thin layer of white slip under a lustrous clear glaze inside and out, showing ‘tear marks’ on the underside where the glaze pools, the sides of the high ring foot slightly splayed on the exterior and slightly canted in on the interior, the edge of the foot and the recessed base unglazed, the exposed porcelain dressed in white slip.
Diameter 6 9⁄16 inches (16.7 cm)
An early Dingyao dish of very similar form on a similar high ring foot with canted sides, excavated at the site of the Ding kilns in Quyang, Hebei province is illustrated in Dingci ya ji: Gugong bowuyuan zhencang ji chutu Dingyao ciqi huicui (Selection of Ding Ware: the Palace Museum’s Collection and Archaeological Excavation), Beijing, 2012, pp. 66-67, no. 19. The same dish is illustrated in the catalogue of the special exhibition at the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, Teiyō: yūganaru shiro no sekai—yōshi hakkutsu seika ten (Ding Ware: The World of White Elegance—Recent Archaeological Findings), Kawasaki, 2013, pp. 102-103, no. 6.
A pair of early Dingyao dishes of very similar form, also dressed in white slip under clear glaze, from the Kubosō Memorial Foundation, Izumi, are illustrated in the catalogue of the special exhibition at the Nezu Institute of Fine Arts, Tōji: hakuji, seiji, sansai (Tang Pottery and Porcelain), Tokyo, 1988, p. 31, no. 25; with another white porcelain dish of similar form excavated in the early 1960’s at Quyang, Hebei province, published in Kaogu, 1965, No. 8, pl. 6, nos. 6 and 9 (two views), also shown in a line drawing op. cit., p. 403, pl. 7-9.
Compare also the similar white porcelain dish in the Kempe Collection illustrated by Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, p. 113, no. 341, and the slightly smaller dish of very similar form in the Meiyintang Collection, illustrated by Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Volume Three (II), London, 2006, pp. 414-415, no. 1413.
五代－北宋初年 定窰白瓷四瓣稜口盤 徑 16.7 厘米
