Rare Carved Dingyao Deep Bowl, Northern Song Dynasty (960 to 1127 China)

8.00cm high    (  3.15 inches high)

18.00cm ( 7.09 inches)

A bowl of the same shape, also of this size and design, from the Hirota Collection in the Tokyo National Museum, is illustrated in: Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, 1982, Vol.1, Col.Pl.9
Compare also a smaller bowl in the National Palace Museum, included in the Special Exhibition of Ting Ware White Porcelain, Taipei 1987, Catalogue No.60

excellent

The interior finely carved with lotus sprays under the ivory glaze, the exterior plain, the rim unglazed.

ref.no. 4644