A white ware bowl, Northern Song dynasty. Estimate US$ 6,000 - 8,000 (€5,300 - 7,100). Photo Bonhams.

Its wide curving well rising from a slightly recessed floor and the exterior rim accented with a rounded lip, the pale straw colored glaze covering the interior and forming uneven welts on the exterior walls, stopping above the wedged foot and shallow recessed base to expose a dense white clay fabric. 8in (20.2cm) diameter

Notes: The raised ridge accenting the exterior rim, the glaze drips on the exterior walls and the dense fabric suggest this bowl was either fired at or inspired by Ding wares of the late 10th or 11th century. For examples of Dingyao bowls from the Kai-yin Lo Collection, see Bright as Silver White as Snow: Chinese White Ceramics from Late Tang to Yuan Dynasty, 1998, plates 8-10, pp. 100-104.

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