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A DINGYAO CARVED 'LOTUS-PATTERN' SAUCER-DISH
Jin Dynasty

15 May 2025, 10:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A DINGYAO CARVED 'LOTUS-PATTERN' SAUCER-DISH

Jin Dynasty
The shallow saucer with tapering sides carved to the flat well with an elegant scrolling lotus, all covered in a creamy ivory-white glaze, the rim with metal mount, box. 11.5cm (4 1/2in) diam. (2).

Footnotes

金 定窯白釉刻劃花蓮花紋鑲銅口盤

Provenance:
Paul Champkins, The Grosvenor House Art & Antiques Fair, London
Emmanuel Christofides (1928-2020), Athens and London, acquired from the above on 14 June 1997

Published and Illustrated:
D.Priestley and M.Flacks, A Life in the Company of Song Ceramics, London, 2017, pp.94-95, no.41

來源:
Paul Champkins,The Grosvenor House藝術與古董博覽會,倫敦
Emmanuel Christofides (1928-2020),雅典和倫敦,從上處獲得於1997年6月14日

著錄:
D.Priestley和M.Flacks,《A Life in the Company of Song Ceramics》,倫敦,2017年,第94-95頁,編號41

Compare with a similar pair of Dingyao carved floral-pattern dishes, Northern Song dynasty, 11th or 12th century, but without metal rims, illustrated in Bright as Silver White as Snow: Chinese White Ceramics from Late Tang to Yuan Dynasty: Examples from the Kai-Yin Lo Collection, Hong Kong, 1998, pp.124-125. See also a related Dingyao dish of this form in the Palace Museum, Taipei, carved with a similar lotus and foliage motif, illustrated in Dingyao baici tezhan tulu, Taipei, 1987, no.113. Compare also with a Dingyao dish of related form, similarly carved with a lotus spray carved to fill the flat interior, illustrated by R.Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol.1, London, 1994, p.204, no.358, where the author cites a similar carved Dingyao dish discovered in a tomb dated by epitaph to between A.D. 1153 and 1160, illustrated in line drawings in Wenwu, 1988, No.7, p.62, fig.16-5.

See a similar Dingyao carved 'lotus' saucer dish, Northern Song dynasty, which was sold at Bonhams London, 9 November 2017, lot 65.

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