AN IMPORTANT AND VERY RARE PAIR OF ‘GUAN’-INSCRIBED DING SQUARE DISHES
30.05.2023 00:00UTC +00:00
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Starting price
7000000HKD HKD 7 000 000
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ID 963303
Lot 3019 | AN IMPORTANT AND VERY RARE PAIR OF ‘GUAN’-INSCRIBED DING SQUARE DISHES
Estimate value
HKD 7 000 000 – 9 000 000
FIVE DYNASTIES-EARLY NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 10TH CENTURY
The flared sides that rise from the flat base to the foliate rim are decorated to the interior cavetto with a raised line of slip separating each petal above the quatrefoil motifs in the bottom of the interior. Each dish is covered overall with a clear glaze except for the unglazed base incised with a guan (official) mark.
3 3/4 in. (9.6 cm.) square, Japanese wood box
Provenance
The Shibata Family Collection, sold in Tokyo Bijutsu Club in the 1980s, by repute
Chang Wei-Hwa & Co., Taipei, 12 November 1992
Literature
The Oriental Ceramic Society, Collectors, Curators, Connoisseurs: A Century of the Oriental Ceramic Society 1921-2021, London, 2021, pp. 174-175, no. 52
Exhibited
London, The Oriental Ceramic Society, Collectors, Curators, Connoisseurs: A Century of the Oriental Ceramic Society 1921-2021, 15 October -11 December 2021
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