A carved 'Ding' 'lotus' dish, Northern Song / Jin dynasty

Property of a Lady.

Christie's London, 11th November 2003, lot 14.

Collection of Harley Preston.

Chinese Ceramics. Tang to Song, Marchant, London, 2022, cat. no. 31.

Compare a similar dish of this form and design from the Meiyintang Collection, illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 1, London, 1994, pl. 358, where the author cites a comparable example excavated from a tomb dated between 1153 and 1160, illustrated in Wenwu, 1988, no. 7, p. 62, fig. 16 (5). See also a set of five dishes of this type, published in The Illustrated Catalogue of the Tokyo National Museum. Chinese Ceramics, Tokyo, 1988, cat. no. 200; a pair exhibited in Early Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Eskenazi, London, 1972, cat. no. 52; and a further dish of this design from the Xiwenguozhai Collection, included in the exhibition Chinese Ceramics. Han to Song, Marchant, London, 2018, cat. no. 13.