Dish with incised peony decoration in white glaze, Ding ware, Song dynasty (960-1279)

Dish with incised peony decoration in white glaze, Ding ware, Song dynasty (960-1279)

• Image Number: K1B002476N000000000PAB
• Dynasty: Song dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Container
• Material: Mineral/ceramic/porcelain
• Description:
  The lip is folded flat, the rim of the mouth is exposed without glaze, the shallow wall is flat and the bottom is flat, and the feet lie down. Draw a circle of rolling cloud pattern on the folding edge, and the inner wall of the plate is full of two intertwined peony flowers. Thick body and thin glaze, with white and yellowish glaze surface. Ding Kiln is located in Jianci Village and Yanshan Village, Quyang County, Hebei Province. Its kilns are widely distributed. It was the most famous white porcelain kiln in the north during the Song and Jin Dynasties. In the book “Brocade in the Sleeves” by the Song people, Ding porcelain, Duanyan inkstone, Zhejiang lacquer, and Neijiu were ranked as “the best in the world, and he could not achieve the end result”.