Lot 808. Property from the Collection of Dorothy Tapper Goldman. A rare pair of small molded white-glazed ‘lotus’ dishes, Liao dynasty (AD 907-1125), 13.5 cm diam. Estimate USD 12,000 – USD 18,000. © Christie’s 2024.

Provenance : Sotheby's New York, 19 September 2002, lot 60.

Note : Compare the similar white stoneware dish dated to the Liao dynasty, 10^th-11^th century, but with five petals rather than six, illustrated by R. Krahl in Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994, vol. I, p. 195, no. 339. Another similar white stoneware dish with five petals, in the Avery Brundage Collection, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, is illustrated by W. Watson in Tang and Liao Ceramics, London, 1984, p. 136, no. 115, where it is described as Xingzhou ware, early 10^th century.

Lot 812. Property from the Collection of Dorothy Tapper Goldman. A rare pair of white-glazed lobed dishes, Liao dynasty (AD 907-1125) ; 23.8 cm diam., cloth boxes. Estimate USD 10,000 – USD 15,000. © Christie’s 2024.

Provenance : Christie's New York, 24 March 2004, lot 147.

Note : Compare a smaller but very similar lobed dish illustrated by Gustaf Lindberg, "Hsing-Yao and Ting-Yao: An Investigation and Description of Some Chinese T'ang and Sung White Porcelain in the Carl Kempe and Gustav Lindberg Collections", B.M.F.E.A., No. 25, Stockholm, 1953, pl. 35, no. 29.

Christie's. Important Chinese Art Including the Collection of Dorothy Tapper Goldman, New York, 22 march 2024