W2 A Ding plain bowl, Song Dynasty

Description

Description:   Chinese large Ding bowl, not decorated. Thin, uniform potting.

Dating:  Song dynasty.

Size:  20.5 cm diameter

Provenance:  Antiquarian market

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Notes:   Ding ware are rare and those with carved decoration are really magnificent. Our one is just plain, nevertheless attractive with its elegant shaping and fine potting.

From Wikipedia: “Ding ware was the most famous northern Chinese white ware under the Song, although there was increasing competition from the Qingbai ware from Jingdezhen in the south, which by the end of the Song had eclipsed Ding ware, achieving a predominance it has maintained in subsequent centuries. A key event in this process was the flight of the remaining Northern Song court to the south, after they lost control of the north in the disastrous Jin-Song wars of the 1120s. A new Southern Song court was based in Hangzhou. This may have been accompanied by the movement of potters to Jingdezhen.”