Important Chinese Northern Song Dingyao Tea Bowl - published

After selling one of the oldest Chinese Tenmoku Tea Bowls (Please refer to our stock # 0250) which came with the first tea from China to Japan we are proud to offer you another more than 1000 year old Chinese tea bowl.

Important and rare Chinese Dingyao (Ting ware, Chinese: 定瓷) tea bowl with floral design from the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) made of finest thin porcelain with a white-greyish body and a nearly transparent white-tinted glaze.

This cultural-historical masterpiece is published in the wonderful book 'Chadogo - The Art of Tea' by Dr. Walther G. von Krenner and Ken Jeremiah (329 pages, ISBN: 979-8662725638).

Provenance: The Walther von Krenner Collection, Kalispell, MT, USA.

The Dingyao bowl is in surprisingly great condition for a more than 1000 year old bowl and has only an almost invisible 2 inch very fine hairline crack (last photography).

It comes with a custom made wooden box, a Shifuku and together with an example of the book 'Chadogu - The Art of Tea', signed and sealed by Dr. Walther von Krenner.

Size: 5 cm height and 11,5 cm in diameter.