Measurements: Height: 2.5" Diameter/Depth: 8.375"

Chinese Ding ware porcelain plate. The porcelain potted in huge plate shape, shallow vessel form, thick and large, with broad wide central interior, raised with round shallow draft, slight concave base. The rim is bound in grayish creme-brown ground and incised decoration of flowers blooms interspersed foliage in a pale creme under glazed. Ding ware was the finest porcelain produced in northern China at the time, and was the first to enter the palace for official imperial use. Its paste is white, generally covered with an almost transparent glaze that dripped and collected in tears, though some Ding ware was glazed a monochrome black or brown, white was the much more common type. Ding ware is among the most refined of Song wares. These subtle, beautifully potted, vessels can be plain or decorated with free-flowing hand carved design as well as intricate mold-impressed decoration. There is literary evidence that Ding ware was among those ceramics supplied to the Northern Sung (960-1127) court. The underside unglazed, revealed the pale-creme ground revealed and dark grayish brown spotted firing marks and edge-cut foot rim. The clay is very fine, with a brilliant glaze finish that was applied by a meticulous, the shape is uniformly proportioned.

In EXCELLENT condition over all.
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