A FINE AND RARE BLUE JUNYAO LIANZI BOWL

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A FINE AND RARE BLUE JUNYAO LIANZI BOWL
SONG DYNASTY (960-1279)

With steep rounded sides rising from a small ring foot to a very slightly incurved mouth rim, covered with a thick glaze of even lavender-blue tone draining from the mouth and stopping in a line just short of the neatly pared edge of the foot, with a splash of glaze on the inside of the foot, the exposed stoneware body burnt reddish-brown in the firing
4 5/8 in. (11.8 cm.) diam., box

Lot Essay

A bowl of similar proportions with purple splashes on the glaze is in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Vol. 32, Porcelain of the Song Dynasty (I), Hong Kong, 1996, pl. 225.

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