J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
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The Gordon Collection:
Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
March 12 - April 4, 2009
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A DINGYAO WHITE PORCELAIN ‘PRUNUS BLOSSOM’ BOWL
Late Tang / Five Dynasties, A.D. 10th Century
with thinly potted flaring sides divided into petal-lobes by deep grooves on the exterior and corresponding ridges on the interior, rising to high points around the mouth, creating a five-petal prunus blossom outline for the rim, engraved with a single line medallion in the center and covered all over with a transparent glaze of pale greenish tone gathering in darker ‘tear marks’ above the shallow ring foot with unglazed flat rim showing the fine white porcelain, the recessed base also glazed and with sandy kiln grit adhering inside the footrim.
Diameter 5 inches (12.7 cm)
A very similar white porcelain bowl in the Palace Museum, Beijing is illustrated in Gugong Bowuyuan Cang Wenwu Zhenpin Quanji: Jin Tang Ciqi (The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelain of the Jin and Tang Dynasties), Vol. 31, Hong Kong, 1996, no. 99, pp. 110-111, described as Tang Dynasty Ding ware.
Another very similar white porcelain bowl is illustrated by Gyllensvard, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, no. 327, p. 110; and another very similar example from the collection of King Gustav VI Adolphus of Sweden is illustrated by Watson, Tang and Liao Ceramics, London, 1984, fig. 112, p. 135, where the author notes that this form of bowl is “…one of the most elegant forms produced in answer to late Tang fashion as dictated by silverware.” The same bowl is also illustrated in The World’s Great Collections: Oriental Ceramics, Vol. 8, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, Tokyo, 1982, col. pl. 26.
晚唐 / 五代 定窯白瓷葵瓣碗 徑 12.7 厘米
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A DINGYAO WHITE PORCELAIN ‘PRUNUS BLOSSOM’ BOWL
Late Tang / Five Dynasties, A.D. 10th Century
Diameter 5 inches (12.7 cm)