Northern Song Dynasty-Jin Dynasty, A.D. 12th Century
Ding kilns
resting on a flat foot encircled by a deftly pared shallow concave band slightly angled out to meet the gently rounded base of the very slightly flaring flat sides rising to a thick narrow band around the exterior of the very slightly rolled-out mouth, the flat floor on the interior with incised line border, covered with a lustrous glaze of ivory tone all over, only the edge of the rim unglazed exposing the fine white body unevenly burnt pale pinkish tan in the firing.
Diameter 4 3⁄8 inches (11.1 cm)
A small Dingyao bowl of this distinctive form excavated from a Jin dynasty tomb at Nanxinzhuang, Haidian district, Beijing, is illustrated in a line drawing in Wenwu, 1988, No. 7, p. 62, pl. 16-2.
北宋-金 定窰白瓷小碗 徑 11.1 厘米
Northern Song Dynasty-Jin Dynasty, A.D. 12th Century
Ding kilns
Diameter 4 3⁄8 inches (11.1 cm)