Lot Essay
No other junyao dish of this form and size appears to be published
A slightly larger dish (11.8cm.), of barbed hexafoil form, was included in the O.C.S. exhibition, Iron in the Fire, Ashmolean Museum, May 10-June 19, 1988, Catalogue, p. 43, no. 23. A larger example (18.38cm.) in the Ashmolean Museum, is illustrated by Mary Tregear, Song Ceramics, New York, 1982, p. 122, no.145, where the author states that this molded ogival shape seems to have been popular during the later Song period, continuing into the Yuan Dynasty, when a comparison between shapes in lacquer work can be made. Compare, also, the hexafoil dish (15.9cm.) in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 10, Tokyo, 1980, pl. 165
A slightly larger dish (11.8cm.), of barbed hexafoil form, was included in the O.C.S. exhibition, Iron in the Fire, Ashmolean Museum, May 10-June 19, 1988, Catalogue, p. 43, no. 23. A larger example (18.38cm.) in the Ashmolean Museum, is illustrated by Mary Tregear, Song Ceramics, New York, 1982, p. 122, no.145, where the author states that this molded ogival shape seems to have been popular during the later Song period, continuing into the Yuan Dynasty, when a comparison between shapes in lacquer work can be made. Compare, also, the hexafoil dish (15.9cm.) in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 10, Tokyo, 1980, pl. 165