J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
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SONG DYNASTY CERAMICS:
The Ronald W. Longsdorf Collection
March 15 - April 13, 2013
15.
A LARGE CARVED DINGYAO PORCELAIN BOWL
Northern Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1127)
with deep rounded sides flaring to a wide upturned rim, freely incised on the interior with a large open lotus bloom rising on a leafy stalk extending across the center of the bowl from a scallop-edged lily pad shown in profile below a spray of curling leaves, the opposite side with two smaller lotus blooms on leafy stalks, the exterior divided into six plain petal-lobes by lightly incised vertical lines rising from the high ring foot towards shallow notches on the rim, covered inside and out with a translucent glaze of ivory tone continuing over the foot and recessed base and showing characteristic ‘tear marks’ on the exterior, the rim wiped clean of glaze before firing, showing the fine white porcelain.
Diameter 9 1⁄2 inches (24.1 cm)
Carved Dingyao bowls of this deep form and large size are very rare, but the lotus design on the interior is a classic pattern found on Dingyao bowls of similar petal-lobed form but of shallower profile and slightly smaller size.
A Dingyao petal-lobed bowl of slightly smaller size from the Qing court collection similarly carved with this pattern on the interior is illustrated in Gugong bowuyuan cang wenwu zhenpin quanji (32) Liang song ciqi, shang (The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Vol. 32, Porcelain of the Song Dynasty I), Hong Kong, 1996, p. 60, no. 52; another example of similar but shallower and slightly smaller form in the National Palace Museum, Taipei is published in Illustrated Catalogue of Sung Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum: Ting Ware and Ting-Type Ware, Taipei, 1973, no. 18; and another carved Dingyao bowl of similar but slightly smaller and less deep form in the British Museum, London, from the Oppenheim Collection, is illustrated in The World’s Great Collections: Oriental Ceramics, Vol. 5, The British Museum, London, Tokyo, 1981, col. pl. 20.
北宋 定窯刻花大碗 徑 24.1 厘米
