Dish showing a design of boys holding lotus flowers. Stoneware with moulded decoration, transparent glaze and metal rim. Height: 27 mm. Diameter: 129 mm. Ding ware 定窯; Quyang county, Hebei province 河北省, 曲陽縣. Jin to Yuan dynasty, AD 1115–1368. On loan from Sir Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art. PDF 188. British Museum © The Trustees of the British Museum

Ding porcelain dish, with copper-bound rim. The dish has cream glaze. There is a moulded design of five boys, holding lotus flowers, dancing around a lotus leaf in the centre.

This dish is decorated with a very rare design of five boys holding lotus flowers dancing around a centrally placed lotus leaf. The rim is bound in metal. 

Bibliographic reference: Medley, Margaret, Illustrated Catalogue of Ting and Allied Wares, London, University of London, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1980