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A DING LOBED BOWL
Song dynasty, 960-1279
定 窯 白 釉 花 口 盌 ( 宋 960-1279)
Dimensions: 17.8 cm diameter
The bowl rising from a short tapering foot to the hexagonal lobed sides. The interior
is left uncarved to reveal an ivory glaze with characteristic pooling into a deeper tone
in the recesses. The edge of the rim left unglazed.
The lobed form of this bowl is almost certainly derived from metalware from the
period. Compare a pair of silvery metal petal-lobed dished dated to the Song Period,
formerly in the Dr Johan Carl Kempe Collection, sold by Christie’s New York,
‘Masterpieces of Early Chinese Gold and Silver’, 12 September 2019, lot 585.
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