New Forms - Song/Yuan

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A PAIR OF DING LOBED DISHES
Northern Song Dynasty, 960-1127
定 窯 白 釉 花 口 盤 一 對 ( 北 宋 960-1127)
Dimensions: 12.7 cm diameter
Provenance: - Victor Rienaecker Collection, no. 141
- Formerly in the Collection of Enid & Brodie Lodge
- Purchased at Halls Auctions, ‘Oriental and European Ceramics
to include the Brodie Lodge Collection of Oriental Ceramics
and Works of Art’, Shrewsbury, 1999, lot 35
The rare pair of delicately potted dishes of six lobed form, on the reverse with
subtle incised lines. The body is covered in an ivory-tinged glaze, leaving only the
outer edge of the rim unglazed.
Compare a slightly smaller, single dish exhibited at Mayuyama & Co., Ltd.,
illustrated in ‘An Exhibition of Song Ceramics 2018’, no. 88., p. 136. Another
pair of Ding dishes of similar form and slightly smaller in size dated to the
Northern Song dynasty was excavated in Kaesong city, southern North Korea.
They are now in the collection of the National Museum of Korea, illustrated in
Min, Hyŏngu etc., ‘Chinese Ceramics at the National Museum of Korea’, Seoul,
2007, no. 54, p. 132.