A SUPERB CARVED DING 'LOTUS' BOWL NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1127)
A SUPERB CARVED DING 'LOTUS' BOWL
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1127)
The bowl is freely carved on the interior with a large lotus blossom borne on a slender stem enclosed by leaves and curling tendrils, all beneath the petal-lobed rim which is bound with a copper band. The bowl is covered overall in a transparent glaze of pale ivory tone.
8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm.) diam., cloth box, wood box
Provenance
Francis Stewart Kershaw (1869-1930) Collection, Boston.
Sotheby Parke Bernet New York, 20 March 1976, lot 83.
Robert Ferris Collection, Windsor, Vermont, 1976-1997.
Private American collection, 1997-2019.
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, 1997, no. 4903.
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A SUPERB CARVED DING 'LOTUS' BOWL
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1127)
The bowl is freely carved on the interior with a large lotus blossom borne on a slender stem enclosed by leaves and curling tendrils, all beneath the petal-lobed rim which is bound with a copper band. The bowl is covered overall in a transparent glaze of pale ivory tone.
8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm.) diam., cloth box, wood box
Provenance
Francis Stewart Kershaw (1869-1930) Collection, Boston.
Sotheby Parke Bernet New York, 20 March 1976, lot 83.
Robert Ferris Collection, Windsor, Vermont, 1976-1997.
Private American collection, 1997-2019.
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, 1997, no. 4903.
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