Foliate White Ware Bowl, Five Dynasties Period, 907 – 960 A.D. © Zetterquist Galleries

Diameter: 17.2cm

A northern white ware porcelaineous stoneware shallow bowl with its rim carved in a foliate design of five lobes divided into two petals each, and covered with a translucent glaze. (Some minute rim chips.) The outside has ivory colored glaze pooling and sits on a straight, neatly cut unglazed footrim more typical of Ding than Xing wares.

From a private American collection.

A similar example from the Carl Kempe Collection is published in “Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection”, Stockholm, 1964. pg. 113, pl. 338.

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