J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
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The Gordon Collection:
Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
March 12 - April 4, 2009
32.
A LOBED JUNYAO ‘NARCISSUS BOWL’ WITH FOLIATE RIM
Yuan-Early Ming Dynasty, 14th -15th Century
with shallow rounded sides divided into six bracket-lobes, rising to an everted rim of conforming outline with barbed edge and with a neatly moulded half-round lip, the footrim following the same contour and raised on three ruyi-shaped feet, covered inside and out with a thick lavender blue glaze of milky opaque tone thinning over the raised areas to show the pale olive-brown tone of the stoneware body beneath the glaze, the base with a thin wash of glaze, showing a ring of sixteen ‘spur marks’ from the kiln support, and impressed under the glaze with the character wu (five).
Diameter 8 5⁄8 inches (22 cm)
Exhibited:
Manchester City Art Gallery, 1913, no. E 490
Kinesiska Utställingen Stockholm, 1914, no. 312
A slightly smaller Junyao tripod basin of this form, with lavender blue glaze on the inside and purple glaze on the exterior, from the Qing Court Collection, illustrated in Gugong Bowuyuan Cang Wenwu Zhenpin Quanji, Liang Song Ciqi, I (The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelain of the Song Dynasty, I), Vol. 32, Hong Kong, 1996, no. 30, p. 35, described as a washer.
元 - 明初 鈞窯藍釉蓮瓣三足洗 徑 22 厘米
32.
A LOBED JUNYAO ‘NARCISSUS BOWL’ WITH FOLIATE RIM
Yuan-Early Ming Dynasty, 14th -15th Century
Diameter 8 5⁄8 inches (22 cm)