£22,000
An Extremely Rare Large Carved Ding Fish Bowl, Jin dynasty well potted, with deep gently rounded sides rising from a straight narrow foot ring, and carved around the exterior with two rows of overlapping stiff lotus lappets, the interior finely incised with a fish swimming amidst combed waves, the tactile ivory-white glaze pooling in characteristic 'teardrops' and stopping neatly at the foot ring. ''Ding bowls carved with the auspicious motif of fish swimming in water were popular in the Northern Song dynasty. Examples of this elegant large deep shape are however unusual, and only one related example appears to have been published: a smaller bowl sold in Hong Kong Sotheby's, 24th November 1981, lot 31. See also a bowl carved with fish on the interior and with petals on the exterior, but of conical form, in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in the Museum's Special Exhibition of Ting Ware White Porcelain, Taipei, 1987, cat. no. 47.?? ??
Compare a similar bowl, in the Percival David Foundation illustrated in The World's Great Collections. Oriental Ceramics, vol. 6, Tokyo, 1982, pl. 13; and a basin in the British Museum published in Oriental Ceramics. The World's Great Ceramics, vol. 5, Tokyo, 1982, pl. 56.; and another with lotus, from the collection of J.H. Oppenheim, now in the British Museum, London, is published ibid., 1981, vol. 5, pl. 57. W:34cm, H:17cm
Fair condition, chips at rim and related hairlines
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