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Lot Essay
Located in the counties of Yu and Linru in Henan province, the Jun kilns produced several types of stonewares covered with thick, opalescent glazes from the Northern Song dynasty onward. Although they are perhaps most famous for their wares featuring a rich opaque pale blue glaze, the kilns also produced, on an apparently much smaller scale, refined vessels covered with an equally thick and unctuous soft green glaze.
This simple, yet refined, dish represents one of the classic Jun ware shapes, which is more commonly found covered with a pale blue glaze, such as the example illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. I, London, 1994, p. 220, no. 381. Similar dishes covered with a soft green glaze are illustrated by M. Sullivan, Chinese Ceramics, Bronzes and Jades in the Collection of Sir Alan and Lady Barlow, London, 1963, pl. 35a, and by A. du Boulay, Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, New Jersey, 1984, p. 86, fig. 1. Compare, also, a similar dish, but with flattened rim, in the Percival David Foundation discussed in the llustrated Catalogue of Ru, Guan, Jun, Guandong and Yixing Wares, rev. ed., 1999, p. 69, no. A66.
This simple, yet refined, dish represents one of the classic Jun ware shapes, which is more commonly found covered with a pale blue glaze, such as the example illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. I, London, 1994, p. 220, no. 381. Similar dishes covered with a soft green glaze are illustrated by M. Sullivan, Chinese Ceramics, Bronzes and Jades in the Collection of Sir Alan and Lady Barlow, London, 1963, pl. 35a, and by A. du Boulay, Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, New Jersey, 1984, p. 86, fig. 1. Compare, also, a similar dish, but with flattened rim, in the Percival David Foundation discussed in the llustrated Catalogue of Ru, Guan, Jun, Guandong and Yixing Wares, rev. ed., 1999, p. 69, no. A66.