The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 20, 2025
Ding Ware Bowl of the Xing Type with Bi-Disc Foot
907–60
Overall: 4.7 x 18.5 cm (1 7/8 x 7 5/16 in.)
Location: Not on view
Did You Know?
The bowl’s foot ring is shaped like a Neolithic bi (璧), a flat jade disc with a central circular hole, which had some ritual function.Description
An ivory-colored glaze covers this shallow bowl with a solid flat foot ring, revealing an almost pure white body. Bowls of this type and shape were used for drinking tea and were traded as far as Samarra (modern Iraq). Red tea consumed during the Tang dynasty (618–906) was believed to look best in pale green or white-glazed bowls. When white whisked powdered tea was introduced a century later during the Song dynasty (960–1279), tastes and aesthetics for tea ceramics changed and dark-glazed teabowls were preferred.- ?–2010(K.Y. Fine Art, Hong Kong, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Keithley)2010–2020Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art2020–The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Von Spee, Clarissa. "Chinese Ceramics and Works on Paper." In The Keithley Collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art, edited by Heather Lemonedes Brown, 194–229. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022. Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 198–199; Mentioned: pp. 259–261
- Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).
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