NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (960-1127)

This delicately potted bowl is unusual for its small size and uncommon form with straight sides. Fragments of a slightly larger bowl (10.9 cm.) dating to the Northern Song dynasty, also with straight sides and applied with a persimmon glaze on the exterior and clear glaze on the interior, was excavated at the Ding kiln site in Quyang county, Dingzhou, illustrated in Ding Kiln of China, Beijing, 2012, pl. 123.