A Large Dingyao Carved Lobed Conical Bowl. Northern Song-Jin Dynasty, 11th-12th Century. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012

The bowl is well potted with a deep, rounded conical body, and is carved in the center with a lotus spray below six slender fillets of slip that rise to shallow indentations in the lobed rim, which also correspond to six lines carved on the exterior. The glaze, of ivory tone, gathers in tears on the exterior and continues over the narrow ring foot to cover the base. The rim has a metal mount. 8 in. (20.3 cm.) diam. Estimate $10,000 - $15,000

北宋/金 定窰白釉刻蓮紋葵口盌

Provenance: S.H. Minkenhoff Collection.
Sotheby's New York, 3 June 1992, lot 199.
Christie's New York, 24 March 2004, lot 149. 

Notes: There is a very similar Dingyao bowl in the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, illustrated in theCatalogue of the Special Exhibition of Ting Ware White Porcelain, Taipei, 1987, no. 50. 

Christie's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Part II, 13 September 2012. New York, Rockefeller Plaza