NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY

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A JUN DEEP BOWL
NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY
The bowl has deep rounded sides rising from the slightly tapered foot to the slightly incurved rim, and is covered overall with a glaze of milky, sky-blue tone thinning to mushroom at the rim and falling in a somewhat irregular line onto the foot. The recessed, unglazed base is inscribed with two characters in faint black ink.
7 1/2 in. (19.1 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. 4243.

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Lot Essay

A similar blue-glazed Jun bowl is illustrated by R.Krahl in Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994, vol. I, p. 221, no. 387. See, also, the Northern Song blue-glazed Jun bowl of this form and of similar size in the collection of Henan Provincial Museum, illustrated in Zhongguo Taoci Quanji: Song (The Complete Works of Chinese Ceramics: Song), vol. 7, Shanghai, 1999, p. 184, no. 186, with description on p. 274.

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