The Property of a Lady 女士藏品
A small Dingyao 'lotus' bowl
Northern Song DynastyFinely potted with thin deep rounded sides rising from a short straight foot, the interior carved with a single lotus flower spray amidst scrolling foliage, all covered with a creamy ivory-white glaze.9cm (3 1/2in) diam.
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北宋 定窯白釉刻蓮紋小盌Provenance: The Honorable Mr. Justice Robert Tang Kwok-ching, SBS, The Xiwenguozhai Collection, Hong KongMarchant, LondonA London private collection來源:香港大紫荊勳章受勳者鄧楨法官,喜聞過齋舊藏英國倫敦古董商,Marchant英國倫敦私人收藏Published and Illustrated: Marchant, Chinese Ceramics Han to Song, London, 2018, no.13展覽著錄:英國倫敦,Marchant,《中國陶瓷:由漢至宋》,2018年,編號13A comparable Dingyao cup is illustrated by R.Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994, vol.1, pp.204-205, no.361; another related Dingyao bowl, Song dynasty, is illustrated in Bright as Silver White as Snow: Chinese White Ceramics from Late Tang to Yuan Dynasty, Examples from the Kai-Yin Lo Collection, Hong Kong, 1998, pp.122-123, pl.19; see also a further example of a Dingyao bowl in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York is illustrated by S.G.Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1975, p.89, no.82.