JIN–YUAN DYNASTY, 13TH–14TH CENTURY

Details

A LARGE PURPLE-SPLASHED JUN BOWL
JIN–YUAN DYNASTY, 13TH–14TH CENTURY
The bowl has gently rounded flaring sides and is covered overall with a glaze of pale milky blue thinning to a mushroom color at the rim. There is a large reddish-purple glaze splash on the interior that drips over to the exterior, and two small reddish-purple drips in the well.
8 in. (20.2 cm.) diam., cloth box

Provenance

Collection of Alexandre J. Argyropoulos (1894-1978), Greek Ambassador to China, late 1940s-early 1950s, and thence by descent within the family.
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4244.

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Lot Essay

A slightly larger, purple-splashed Jun bowl, from the Songde Tang Collection, was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 3 December 2021, lot 2813. See, also, a Jun bowl with a purple splash on the interior, illustrated in Beauty & Entirety - Ceramics of the Song Dynasty from The Palace Museum, Museum of Art in Macau, 2012, pl. 38.

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