A rare Dingyao moulded 'floral' bowl

Jin Dynasty

Jin Dynasty
The thinly potted bowl with a plain exterior and typical olive teardrop trails, the interior crisply moulded in six panels each with an upright cluster of floral sprays including daisy, peony and camellia, a strip of corroded metal adhering at one point to the unglazed biscuit rim, fitted box. 19.3cm (7 5/8in) diam. (2).

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Provenance: Cheng Te-k'un, prior to October 1950
Bluett & Sons Ltd., London, 1950
Rolf, Lord Cunliffe (1899-1963), Honorary Keeper of the Far Eastern Collections at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Bonhams London, 11 November 2002, lot 16
Acquired from R & V Tregaskis, Sydney, on 3 February 2010, no.2896
The Reid Collection

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For a very similar bowl Dingyao bowl, early 13th century, see Teiyo hakuji, Tokyo, 1983, no.133. For another similarly moulded bowl from the collection of the Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, but with a central medallion of two fish, see B.McElney, Inaugural Exhibition, vol.1 Chinese Ceramics, Bath, 1993, no.88. Another related white glazed bowl with floral patterns in six sections around the interior, Song dynasty, is illustrated in Selected Chinese Antiquities from the Collection of Gustaf Adolf Crown Prince of Sweden, Stockholm, 1948, pp.118-119, pl.75.