A FINE NUMBERED JUNYAO TRIPOD NARCISSUS BOWL, GUTING SHUIXIAN PEN

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A FINE NUMBERED JUNYAO TRIPOD NARCISSUS BOWL, GUTING SHUIXIAN PEN
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY

The thickly potted shallow bowl resting on three ruyi feet, decorated around the base and below the lipped rim with fifteen and eighteen 'drum-nail' bosses respectively, covered inside and out with an attractive glaze in shades of purple and pale milky-blue with areas of pale brown where the glaze has thinned, the interior with some characteristic 'worm-trails', the base incised with the Chinese numeral si (four) and covered with a brown wash, the outer base edge with a ring of twenty spur-marks--7 7/8 in. (20cm.) diam., stand

Lot Essay

Several Junyao bulb bowls of this shape and size have been published. Compare the examples in the Percival David Foundation, London, included in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 6, 1982, no. 51; in Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, no. 103; and in Sekai Toji Zenshu, Shogagukan Series, vol. 13, pl. 289

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