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Lot 177

A FINE AND RARE PAIR THINLY POTTED FLOWER-SHAPED DING OR XING WARE BOWLS

Estimated Value:

1.500 € - 2.500 €

Result:

5.180 € incl. Premium and VAT

Description:

China, late Tang/ early Northern Song dynasty, 10th c.
D. 10,7 cm
Collection Jürgen L. Fischer (- 2013), Baden-Baden, collected before 1990
Published and illustrated: J.L. Fischer 'Chinese Art', Munich, 1998, no. 118 (one bowl illustrated)
See Feng Xiaoqi ‚The Specimens of Ancient Chinese Kilns in the Collection of the Palace Museum‘, Henan Vol. I, no. 27, p. 85; ‚Decorated Porcelain of Dingzhou - White Ding wares from the collection of the National Palace Museum‘, Taipei, 01/2014, no. I -21, p. 40; Lu Yaw, Feng Xianming and Mary Tregear ‚Song Ceramics‘ Exhibition Catalogue National Museum Singapore May/June 1983, no. 78, p. 94. For a Huozhou ware cup with similar glaze see Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang London, 1994-2010, vol. 3, p. 401, fig. 23 - One bowl with few tiny frits at the rim, the other with a tiny filled chip or frit at the rim, otherwise very nicely preserved