A Small Junyao Bubble Bowl
Song dynasty, 11th-12th century
The well-potted, rounded body covered inside and out with a glaze of milky turquoise tone thinning to a mushroom color on the rim and falling in an irregular line onto the small foot
2½in. (6.4cm.) diam., stand
Falk Collection no. 154.
Exhibited
Early Chinese Miniatures, New York, China House Gallery, China Institute in America, 1977, no. 205.
Lot Essay
Compare the larger Junyao bowl of very similar proportions and color illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. I, London, 1994, p. 221, no. 388.
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