北宋 定窰系醬釉葵口盤

thinly potted, rising from a short straight foot, the angled sides flaring slightly to a petal-edged rim divided by six notches, covered overall with a lustrous rust-brown glaze thinning at the rim, stopping unevenly above the unglazed foot, Japanese wood box (3)

Harry Nail 收藏
Hans Popper (1903-1988)收藏，編號C-1047
Eskenazi Ltd.，倫敦

《The Hans Popper Collection of Oriental Art》，舊金山亞洲藝術博物館，1973年，編號115
《Song Ceramics from the Hans Popper Collection》，Eskenazi，倫敦，2005年，編號36

With light surface wear throughout consistent with age and use. An area of repair at the rim from an 11 cm wide network of breaks. An old Eskanazi label affixed to the exterior.
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Inspired by lacquers of the period, dishes of mallow-shape are rarely found among persimmon-glazed wares. A similar persimmon-glazed mallow-shaped dish attributed to the Ding kilns in the Nezu Museum was included in the exhibition The Colors and Forms of Song and Yuan China: Featuring Lacquerwares, Ceramics, and Metalwares, Nezu Institute of Fine Arts, Tokyo, 2004, cat. no. 24. Another from the Tokyo National Museum collection with a circular unglazed area on the interior is attributed to Cizhou ware, illustrated in ibid., cat. no. 25. Compare also a Ding-type dish formerly in the Cunliffe Collection, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 2nd December 2015, lot 2819.