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
40.
A LARGE CARVED DINGYAO WHITE PORCELAIN
FOLIATE BOWL
Northern Song dynasty (A.D. 960-1127)
with wide rounded sides rising from a low, square-cut ring foot to a flared rim divided into six petal-lobes by shallow notches, freely incised on the interior with a large lotus bloom rising on a slender stalk extending across the recessed central medallion, and with a scallop-edged lotus leaf shown in profile at one side below a spray of curling leaves, the opposite side with two smaller lotus blooms and leafy stalks, covered overall with a translucent glaze of ivory tone, gathering in characteristic ‘tear marks’ on the exterior, the lip unglazed revealing the fine white porcelain body.
Diameter 9 1⁄4 inches (23.5 cm)
From the Collection of J. Hellner (1866-1947), Stockholm
Exhibited:
Copenhagen, Kunst Industri Museet (Museum of Decorative Arts), 1950
Published:
Wirgin, Sung Ceramic Designs, B.M.F.E.A., No. 42, Stockholm, 1970, pl. 59b
A Dingyao foliate bowl of this form and size carved with the same pattern, from the Qing Court collection, is illustrated in Gugong Bowuyuan Cang Wenwu Zhenpin Quanji: Liang Song Ciqi, I (The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelain of the Song Dynasty, I), Vol. 32, Hong Kong, 1996, no. 52, p. 60; another example in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is illustrated in Illustrated Catalogue of Sung Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum: Ting Ware and Ting-Type Ware, Taipei, 1973, no.18; and another similar carved Dingyao bowl is in the British Museum, London, from the Oppenheim Collection, illustrated by Rawson, The World’s Great Collections: Oriental Ceramics, Vol. 5, The British Museum, London, Tokyo, 1981, col. pl. 20.
Other similar flower-shaped Dingyao bowls decorated with carved lotus in this pattern are in the Umezawa Kinenkan, Tokyo, illustrated in the catalogue of the Nezu Institute of Fine Arts exhibition entitled Dingyao Baici (The White Porcelains of Dingyao), Tokyo, 1983, no. 113, p. 69, designated as an Important Cultural Property by the Japanese government; in the permanent collection of the Asia Society, New York, illustrated by Leidy, Treasures of Asian Art – The Asia Society’s Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection, New York, 1994, no. 144, p. 154; and in the Newark Museum, illustrated by Reynolds and Pei, Chinese Art from the Newark Museum, China Institute, New York, 1980, no. 13, p. 31, from the Jaehne Collection; and in the Idemitsu Museum, illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, no. 413.
北宋 定窯刻花蓮紋葵口大碗 徑 23.5 厘米
40.
A LARGE CARVED DINGYAO WHITE PORCELAIN
FOLIATE BOWL
Northern Song dynasty (A.D. 960-1127)
Diameter 9 1⁄4 inches (23.5 cm)