Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1279)
of plain, elegant form with straight sides flaring up at an angle from the flat circular base raised on a small ring foot, covered inside and out with a transparent glaze of creamy tone, the glaze gathering in characteristic ‘tear marks’ on the underside and continuing over the foot rim and the base, the edge of the mouth rim unglazed.
Diameter 6 3⁄8 inches (16.1 cm)
From the Collection of J. Hellner (1866-1947), Stockholm
Exhibited:
Stockholm, Kina och Norden i form och glasyr ur Hellnerska samlingen (Chinese and Scandinavian Ceramics: A Selection from the Hellner Collection), Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, 1970
Published:
Kina och Norden i form och glasyr ur Hellnerska samlingen (Chinese and Scandinavian Ceramics: A Selection from the Hellner Collection), Stockholm, 1970, no. 43, p. 66, with description on p. 28
A Dingyao dish of closely related form with gently lobbed rim in the Meiyintang Collection is illustrated by Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Volume One, London, 1994, no. 347, pp. 198-199.
宋 定窯折腰盤 徑 16.1 厘米
Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1279)
Diameter 6 3⁄8 inches (16.1 cm)