J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
MenuPast Exhibition
The Gordon Collection:
Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
March 12 - April 4, 2009
26.
A BLUE-GLAZED JUNYAO BOWL
Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1279)
with steep sides very slightly incurved at the rim and rounded at the base, covered with a lustrous bright lavender-blue glaze thinning to a mushroom color at the lip, with a circular area left unglazed in the center, the square-cut footrim neatly finished, the glaze continuing over the recessed base.
Diameter 4 1⁄8 inches (10.5 cm)
A similar bowl is illustrated by Valenstein in The World’s Great Collections: Oriental Ceramics, Vol. 11, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Tokyo, 1982, pl. 28, left. Another similar Junyao bowl in the Swedish Royal Collections is illustrated by Palmgren, Selected Chinese Antiquities from the Collection of Gustaf Adolf, Crown Prince of Sweden, Stockholm, 1948, pl. 81-1, with description on p. 122. A Junyao bowl of this form, excavated from an old kiln site in Xinan County, Henan, is illustrated in a line drawing in Wenwu, 1974, no. 12, p. 77, fig. 3(5); and another similar Jun bowl excavated in Fangcheng county, Henan, is illustrated in Wenwu, 1983, no. 3, p. 93, fig. 6 right.
宋 鈞窯天藍釉直口碗 徑 10.5 厘米