A Dingyao carved 'lotus' lobed dish


Song/Jin DynastyThe shallow bowl thinly potted with a hexalobed rim, the interior finely carved on the sides and across the well with exquisite curling lotus blossoms on winding foliate stems, all covered with a rich creamy glaze, fitted box. 20.4cm (8in) diam (2).
|宋/金 定窯系刻花蓮紋折腰盌Provenance: Peel Park Museum, Salford (label)來源：Peel Park博物馆，英國Salford（標籤）Compare with a mallow-petal plate with similarly carved floral design in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelain of the Song Dynasty (I), Hong Kong, 1996, p.92, no.73.