ID 905567
Lot 863 | A SUPERB CARVED DING 'LOTUS' BOWL
Estimate value
$ 200 000 – 300 000
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.
| Applied technique: | Pottery |
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| Medium: | Ceramic, Stoneware |
| Historical era: | Song dynasty |
| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Asia |
| Category: | Bowls |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Applied technique: | Pottery |
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| Medium: | Ceramic, Stoneware |
| Historical era: | Song dynasty |
| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Asia |
| Category: | Bowls |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
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