A LARGE CHINESE DINGYAO LOBED BOWL. Song Dynasty, or later. The flared body with an everted rim divided into six lobes, each finely moulded with a spray of blossoms, the centre with a pomegranate, all decorated with a cream glaze and raised on a circular foot, 24.3cm diameter. Provenance: an English private collection, John Sparks [label]. 宋或更晚 定窯印花葵口盌 來源：英國私人收藏，約翰·斯帕克斯（標籤）。 Similar examples published in Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Ting Ware White Porcelain, no. 133; China at the Inception of the Second Millennium: Art and Culture of the Sung Dynasty, 960-1279, V-24, p.289, also see Lovell, Ting Yao and Related White Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, pl.II, no. 106.

(24.3cm diameter.)