Important Chinese Art

Important Chinese Art

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A rare small molded 'Ding' white-glazed 'mandarin duck' dish, Northern Song / Jin dynasty | 北宋 / 金 定窰白釉印花鴛鴦穿蓮紋小盤

This lot has been withdrawn

Lot Details

Description

A rare small molded 'Ding' white-glazed 'mandarin duck' dish

Northern Song / Jin dynasty

北宋 / 金 定窰白釉印花鴛鴦穿蓮紋小盤


finely potted with the gently rounded sides rising from a countersunk base, crisply impressed to the interior with a mandarin duck in flight, the elegant bird depicted grasping a leafy stem in its beak, all amidst dense meandering lotus scrolls, surrounded by a classic scroll between keyfret bands around the cavetto, covered overall in an ivory-tinged glaze pooling in characteristic tear-drops on the exterior, the rim metal-bound


Diameter 5 ⅛ in., 13.1 cm

Please note, lot 226 has been withdrawn from this sale. 請注意，拍品226現已撤拍。

Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, 12th April 1969.

Private Collection, and thence by descent.


來源

Ralph M. Chait Galleries，紐約，1969年4月12日

私人收藏，此後家族傳承

The present dish is notable for the crispness and the intricacy of the molded design, which testify to the proficiency of the craftsman and the exceptional quality of Ding wares achieved during this period. See a closely related dish of slightly larger size in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, modeled in the same form and decorated with a very similar mandarin duck design, included in the exhibition Decorated Porcelains of Ding Zhou. White Ding Wares from the Collection of the National Palace Museum, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 2014, cat. no. II-127.

Compare other related Ding wares including a slightly larger dish of the same form, but molded with a playful boy amidst lotus scrolls, sold in our London rooms, 14th May 2008, lot 265; and another from the Linyushanren Collection, decorated with a peacock design, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 1st December 2015, lot 2813. See also a lobed dish in the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, decorated to the interior with two similarly depicted birds amidst lotus scrolls, included in the exhibition White Porcelain of Ding Yao, Nezu Museum, Tokyo, 1983, cat. no. 134; and another with a slightly less intricate design, sold in our London rooms, 25th March 1975, lot 36.