Lot Essay
Related Ding dishes molded with similar scenes of ducks in a lotus pond include the dish in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Ting Ware White Porcelain, Taipei, 1987, no. 93, and the dish from the Edward T. Chow Collection illustrated by J. Wirgin in Sung Ceramic Designs, Stockholm, 1970, pl. 97b, and subsequently sold at Sotheby’s London, 16 December 1980, lot 255.