A CHINESE SANCAI SQUARE DISH

LIAO DYNASTY

The flared body rising to a barbed rim, moulded to the centre with a chrysanthemum bloom surrounded by four large leaves, with eight further panels enclosing flowers to the cavetto, decorated in green and amber against a cream ground, the base left unglazed, 12.4cm.

Provenance: formerly a Japanese private collection; Uragami Sokyu-do Co, Ltd, Tokyo.

Cf: The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Porcelain of the Song Dynasty (I), pp.278-279, no.253 for a similar dish; see also R Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol.1, pp.174-175, no.311 for another comparable example.