BLUE-GLAZED 'JUN' DISH
SONG DYNASTY
£35,200
Fine Asian & Islamic Works of Art
Auction: 3 November 2023 from 09:00 GMT
Description
宋 鈞窯天藍釉折沿盤
sturdily potted with shallow rounded sides rising from a short foot to a wide everted rim, covered overall in a milky lavender-blue glaze thinning to a mushroom tone at the mouth rim, save for the foot revealing the buff-orange body and five evenly-spaced spur marks
Dimensions
17.8cm diameter
Provenance
Provenance: Sydney L. Moss Ltd., 1 October 1968, with an original receipt; Previously in the collection of Mr and Mrs Brodie Lodge.
Exhibited: Sung Dynasty Wares: Chün and Brown Glazes, Oriental Ceramic Society, 1952, catalogue no. 71, pg. 10, with a copy of the catalogue.
Dr. Kenneth P. Lawley's inventory number: Cer.38.
Footnote
Note: A slightly larger Jun ware dish is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, note the different treatments on the foot rim and spur marks, accession no. 50.1310; Another similar but smaller dish is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, museum no. FE.167-1974, illustrated in Rose Kerr, 2004, Song Dynasty Ceramics, London: V&A Publications, pl. 23. Also compare to several examples in the market, one from the Pilkington Collection, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 05 April 2016, lot 13; other two of the Song-Jin dynasty, sold at Sotheby's London, 11 May 2016, lot 24 and Christie's London, 14 May 2019, lot 207.
Please note this lot will be offered with no reserve. 本拍品不設底價