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
28.
A PURPLE AND BLUE SPLASHED JUNYAO ‘BUBBLE BOWL’
Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1279)
of almost hemispherical form, with steeply rounded sides and slightly incurved rim, resting on a small ring foot, covered inside and out with a lustrous thick lavender-blue glaze, with a large purplish splash flanked by two smaller deep blue splashes on the interior and with two more deep blue splashes on the exterior, the glaze draining from the rim to a pale mushroom tone and pooling unevenly around the neatly-finished small ring foot, the base left unglazed showing the hard stoneware body.
Diameter 3 3⁄8 inches (8.6 cm)
A very similar splashed Junyao ‘bubble bowl’ in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is 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, pl. 222, p. 246.
Similar purple-splashed Junyao ‘bubble bowls’ are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, illustrated by Valenstein, The World’s Great Collections: Oriental Ceramics, Vol. 11, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Tokyo, 1982, pl. 41; in the Asia Society, New York, illustrated by Leidy, Treasures of Asian Art, The Asia Society’s Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection, New York, 1994, no. 147, p. 157; and by Mowry, Handbook of the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection, New York, 1981, p. 64; in the City Art Gallery, Bristol, illustrated by Dubosc in Mostra d’Arte Cinese: Settimo Centenario di Marco Polo (Exhibition of Chinese Art: The Seventh Centenary of Marco Polo), Venice, 1954, no. 479 (a pair); in the Baur Collection, illustrated by Ayers, The Baur Collection: Chinese Ceramics, Vol. I, Geneva, 1968, nos. A31 and A32; and in the Percival David Foundation, illustrated by Medley, The Chinese Potter, Oxford, 1976, fig. 83, p. 120.
宋 鈞窯天藍釉紫斑碗 徑 8.6 厘米
28.
A PURPLE AND BLUE SPLASHED JUNYAO ‘BUBBLE BOWL’
Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1279)
Diameter 3 3⁄8 inches (8.6 cm)