White bowl with incised peony design, Ding ware, Northern Song dynasty (960-1127)-China Archive

Image Number: K1B003028N000000000PAB
Dynasty: Northern Song dynasty
Category: Ceramics
Function: Container
Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
Description:
Low mouth, shallow wall, flat bottom, shallow circle foot. A tree peony flower is drawn on the inner bottom center, and the whole body is covered with white enamel, and part of it is yellow. Add a copper ring at the mouth edge. The poem “Chanting Ding Kiln Plate” is engraved on the outsole: “It is said that it was made in Dingzhou, and Dingzhou is really unique today. Peng Tao is better than Su Yongxin. Mu Ruo is full of spirit, but he is depressed about flowers and leaves. Hotan jade is easy to cut, but it is difficult to get it”. At the end of the poem, “Emperor Qianlong Guisi Mengchun’s Imperial Title” (38th year of Qianlong’s reign: 1773) was signed, and two seals, “Understanding is not far away” and “Virtue is sufficient”, were affixed.