D: 13.5 cm
H: 1.5 cm

As one of the “Five Great Wares” during the Song Dynasty, Ding ware is highly valued by collectors. This gracefully shaped dish has an everted rim divided into six bracket-lobes each centered with a sharp point. The rim, with a protruding band, is finely moulded with ruyiform clouds, the interior shaped to echo the rim, the flat center of the interior skillfully carved with a ruyi-form clouds band encircling a child at play. The child wearing a bellyband with a bowknot behind the neck is turning his/her head and stretching out over a group of lotus leaves, two lotus flowers moulded beside the child’s head and feet. Applied overall with a white glaze bright and smooth, this dish is unusually rare and valuable among Ding wares.