Christie's. Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Hong Kong, 9 July 2020
9 juillet 2020
A Ding carved 'lotus' bowl, Northern Song dynasty (960-1127)
Lot 2802. A Ding carved 'lotus' bowl, Northern Song dynasty (960-1127); 8 in. (20.3 cm.) diam. Estimate HKD 300,000 - HKD 500,000. Price realised HKD 625,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
The bowl is thinly potted with an angular profile, fluidly carved to the interior with lotus blossoms and leaves on meandering stems, covered inside and out with a lustrous glaze of pale ivory tone. The mouth is bound with a metal rim. The base is incised with a collector’s mark qi, ‘seven’, Japanese wood box.
Provenance: Private collection of a Japanese artist (d. 1975), and thence by descent within the family.
Note: A Ding dish of very similar lotus design but with a rounded rim from the Palace Museum, Beijing is illustrated in Selection of Ding Ware: The Palace Museum’s Collection and Archaeological Excavation, Beijing, 2012, pp. 154-155, no. 60. Another rounded Ding dish with incised lotus motifs is in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Tsai Meifen, Decorated Porcelains of Dingzhou: White Ding Wares from the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 2014, pp. 88-89, no. II-42.
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