Antique Chinese Five Dynasties or Song Dynasty White Ding Xing Bowl

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Condition Report: Overall Condition B (Good d) 1 hairline & Some glaze lines, glazing defects. Size: 186mm diameter

Lovely bowl from the 8th / 10th Century. Five Dynasties or Song from the North of China. So called Ding or Xing ware.

 

For a xing ware dish of similar form but slightly smaller size in the Idemitsu Museum of Art, see Li Zhiyin and others,Chinese Ceramics from the Paleolithic Period through the Qing dynasty 2010, p.543, pl. 10.9 (14.0cm diameter). The authors also mention that Xing type ceramics were, with Yue and Changsha wares, the three most prevalent ceramics exported from China from the eighth to late tenth century. For another white ware bowl of similar shape and size, found in Pagerrejo, Wonosobbo, Central Java, and ascribed to the ninth century, see ORIENTAL CERAMICS The World’s Great Collections, Vol. 3: Museum Pusat, Jakarta, black and white plate 60 (14.0cm diameter).

 

Provenance: The Peter Arlidge Collection of Song Ceramics : These were collected during a 50-year career in transport investment. Peter, who describes himself as an ‘old-fashioned collector’, comes from a long line of potters and was the first son not to take up the family profession. Instead, he had a career in transport investment that made him resident in countries such as Malaysia, Vietnam and Indonesia where his love affair with ceramics developed. During Peter’s time in Malaysia in the 1960s his interest in Chinese ceramics peaked and when he later moved to Indonesia, he bought the first two pieces for what would become a much prized personal collection.