A CHINESE DING WHITE GLAZED BOWL

LATE TANG DYNASTY

The shallow body rising from a short circular foot, with a raised lip encircling the rim, all decorated with a simple white glaze, the base shaped as a bi disc, with paper labels for Lally & Co and the Ronald W Longsdorf Collection, 15.7cm.

Provenance: formerly the Ronald W Longsdorf Collection, no.911; and then J J Lally & Co, New York, no.X2251.

Exhibited: J J Lally & Co, Early Chinese White Wares: The Ronald W Longsdorf Collection, New York, 11th September-3rd October 2015, catalogue no.9; and then The Crow Museum of Asian Art of The University of Texas at Dallas, Clay Between Two Seas: From the Abbasid Court to Puebla de los Angeles, Dallas, Texas, 17th September 2016-12th February 2017, and Museo Internacional del Barroco, Puebla, Mexico, 25th March-30th July 2017 as part of the same exhibition.

Cf. The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelain of the Jin and Tang Dynasties, p.107, no.96 for a related Tang dynasty Ding ware bowl; see also The Palace Museum, Selection of Ding Ware: the Palace Museum's Collection and Archaeological Excavation, pp.60-61, no.16 for another comparable bowl; see also The Complete Works of Chinese Ceramics, vol.6, Tang, Five Dynasties, p.198, no.223 for a similar Five Dynasties bowl in the collection of the Palace Museum.