A FINE NUMBERED JUNYAO NARCISSUS BOWL

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A FINE NUMBERED JUNYAO NARCISSUS BOWL
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY

Sturdily potted, the rounded sides encircled around the rim between a double ridge with a band of raised bosses, repeated above the three ruyi feet, covered overall with a soft lavender glaze draining to brown in places, the base with a ring of seventeen spur-marks, incised on the inside of one foot with the character qi, seven, and an additional qi scratched onto base
7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm.) diam., stand, box

Lot Essay

Previously sold in Hong Kong, 26 October 1993, lot 15.

A slightly larger blue bulb bowl of this shape and with the numeral 'five' incised in the same unusual position inside the foot, is illustrated in Porcelain of the National Palace Museum: Chun Ware of the Sung Dynasty, pl. 24. An example of a narcissus bowl also incised with the numeral 'seven' but on the base, is in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, illustrated by He Li, Chinese Ceramics, 1996, no. 236. Other similar bulb bowls in various sizes and glaze colours are in the National Palace Museum, Taibei, included in the Illustrated Catalogue of Sung Dynasty Porcelain, 1973, pls. 64-67.

Fragments of several 'drum-nail basins' of this form from the Jun ware kiln sites at Baguadong, Yuxian, Henan, with different numerals incised on the base, were included in the O. C. S. Exhibition of Kiln Sites of Ancient China, 1980, cat. nos. 394-397.

(US$32,000-45,000)

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