Lot 262
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A SMALL PURPLE-SPLASHED JUNYAO BUBBLE BOWL
A SMALL PURPLE-SPLASHED JUNYAO BUBBLE BOWL

NORTHERN SONG/JIN DYNASTY

Details
A SMALL PURPLE-SPLASHED JUNYAO BUBBLE BOWL
Northern Song/Jin Dynasty
The rounded body covered inside and out with a crackle-suffused glaze of soft greyish-blue tone thinning to mushroom on the rim and with splashes of reddish-purple and purplish blue tone on the interior, the glaze ending just above the small neatly finished foot showing the fine-grained ware
3in. (9.5cm.) diam., box

Lot Essay

Compare the bubble bowls illustrated by J. Ayers in the Catalogue of the Baur Collection, Geneva, 1968, vol. 1, nos. A31 and A32; by S. Lee, Asian Art: Selections from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd, Part II, New York, 1975, p. 45, no. 28; by Liu Liang-Ju, A Survey of Chinese Ceramics: Sung Wares , Hong Kong, 1991, p. 125 (top); and in Song Dynasty Ceramics, Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Japan, 1979, no. 65.