NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1127)

For a Ding ‘lotus’ bowl carved with a similar design, but with foliate rim, see Beyond Compare: A Thousand Years of the Literati Aesthetic; Christie’s Hong Kong, 26 November 2018, lot 8005. Another Ding bowl of this design with foliate rim is illustrated by J.J. Lally & Co. in The Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Marvin L. Gordon, New York, 2009, no. 40.