The Ding kilns worked at Quyang in the Northern Song, after the Xing kilns declined. They made a white ware with an ivory tone, often decorated with carved, incised or moulded lotus and peony designs, and their bowls and dishes were supplied to the court and exported widely. The kiln site was excavated in the twentieth century and is a national key cultural relic; Ding ware is counted among the five great wares of the Song.
The Ding kilns stood at Jianci village in Quyang County, west of Baoding, and worked from the eighth century to the fourteenth. They fired bowls upside down with coal, which gave the glaze its ivory tone, and their carved white ware was counted among the five famous kilns.