A rare Dingyao moulded 'floral' bowl


Jin DynastyThe thinly potted bowl with a plain exterior and typical olive teardrop trails, the interior crisply moulded in six panels each with an upright cluster of floral sprays including daisy, peony and camellia, a strip of corroded metal adhering at one point to the unglazed biscuit rim, fitted box. 19.3cm (7 5/8in) diam. (2).
|金 定窯白釉印花卉紋盌 Provenance: Cheng Te-k'un, prior to October 1950Bluett & Sons Ltd., London, 1950Rolf, Lord Cunliffe (1899-1963), Honorary Keeper of the Far Eastern Collections at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Bonhams London, 11 November 2002, lot 16Acquired from R & V Tregaskis, Sydney, on 3 February 2010, no.2896The Reid Collection來源： 1950年10月前為Cheng Te-k'un先生收藏倫敦古董商Bluett & Sons Ltd.Cunliffe收藏，藏品編號TT272002年11月11日於倫敦邦瀚斯拍賣，拍品16號於2010年2月3日購自悉尼古董商R & V Tregaskis，編號2896Reid 收藏For a very similar bowl Dingyao bowl, early 13th century, see Teiyo hakuji, Tokyo, 1983, no.133. For another similarly moulded bowl from the collection of the Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, but with a central medallion of two fish, see B.McElney, Inaugural Exhibition, vol.1 Chinese Ceramics, Bath, 1993, no.88. Another related white glazed bowl with floral patterns in six sections around the interior, Song dynasty, is illustrated in Selected Chinese Antiquities from the Collection of Gustaf Adolf Crown Prince of Sweden, Stockholm, 1948, pp.118-119, pl.75.