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
29.
A LARGE BLUE JUNYAO BOWL
Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1279)
of very well potted deep rounded form with upturned rim, covered inside and out with a fine bright lavender-blue glaze of even tone, shading to pale mushroom-tan color where it drains from the lip, and pooling above the high ring foot with splayed edge, with a splash of glaze over the recessed base, the exposed stoneware burnt reddish-brown in the firing.
Diameter 8 1⁄4 inches (20.9 cm)
A blue Jun bowl of very similar form and size discovered in a hoard excavated in 1963 in Huangzhuang, Yu county, Henan province, and now in the Henan Provincial Museum is illustrated in Zhongguo Taoci Quanji: Song (The Complete Works of Chinese Ceramics: Song), Vol. 7, Shanghai, 2000, pl. 186, p. 184.
Compare also the blue Jun bowl of slightly smaller size illustrated by Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Volume Three (II), London, 2006, no. 1461, p. 460.
宋 鈞窯天藍釉大碗 徑 20.9 厘米