J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York

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Past Exhibition

SONG DYNASTY CERAMICS:
The Ronald W. Longsdorf Collection

March 15 - April 13, 2013

14.
A LARGE JUNYAO GREEN-GLAZED DEEP BOWL

Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1279)

with steeply rounded sides curving in very slightly at the rim and rounded at the bottom to a broad base, raised on a tall ring foot, covered inside and out with a thick opaque glaze of grayish olive-green tone, with an unglazed medallion at the center of the interior, the recessed base splashed with glaze.

Height 6 inches (15.3 cm)
Diameter 7 inches (17.8 cm)

Junyao bowls of this large size and deep form are rare, and no other example with green glaze appears to have been previously published.

A Junyao bowl of similar size and shape covered with a typical lavender-blue Jun glaze is illustrated in The World’s Great Collections: Oriental Ceramics, Vol. 11, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Tokyo, 1982, no. 45, from the Samuel T. Peters Collection; and another similar example, also with a lavender-blue glaze is illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, no. 484.

宋    鈞窯綠釉深缽    高  15.3  厘米    徑  17.8  厘米