A SUPERB CARVED DING `LOTUS` BOWL

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23.03.2023 08:30UTC -04:00
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ID 905567
Lot 863 | A SUPERB CARVED DING 'LOTUS' BOWL
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.



Literature

J. J. Lally & Co., Brush & Clay: Paintings by Robert Ferris and Chinese Ceramics of the Song Dynasty from the Artist's Collection, New York, 1997, no. 21.



Exhibited

On loan: Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University.

On loan: Minneapolis, Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

New York, J. J. Lally & Co., Brush & Clay: Paintings by Robert Ferris and Chinese Ceramics of the Song Dynasty from the Artist's Collection, 19 September-18 October 1997, no. 21.
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