NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY (AD 960-1234)

Molded decoration on Ding wares was adopted in the latter part of the Northern Song dynasty (AD 960-1127) and flourished during the Jin dynasty (1115-1234). A similar lobed molded Ding bowl of larger size similarly decorated with sprays of peony blossoms and keyfret border, in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is illustrated in the exhibition catalogue Dingzhou huaci: yuan cang Dingyai xi baici tezhan (Decorated Porcelains of Dingzhou: White Ding wares from the Collection of the National Palace Museum), Taipei, 2013, p. 164, no. II-106, where it is dated Northern Song-Jin dynasty, 12th century. Another lobed Ding bowl with closely related molded floral decoration, also in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is illustrated ibid., p. 165, no. II-107, and dated Jin dynasty, 12th-13th century.