NORTHERN SONG/JIN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY

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A JUNYAO BUBBLE BOWL
NORTHERN SONG/JIN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY
Of rounded form raised on a neatly cut ring foot, covered with a widely crackled glaze of milky turquoise color thinning to mushroom at the rim and with splashes of reddish purple and green on the interior and exterior; together with a 'soft' Junyao pomegranate-form waterpot, Ming dynasty, covered with a thick pale milky blue glaze with reddish purple splashes
3¾ in. (9.5 cm.) diam., 3¾ (9.5 cm.) high (2)

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Lot Essay

It is very unusual to find a Junyao bowl of this type decorated with splashes of deep green. Compare the bubble bowls illustrated by J. Ayers in the Catalogue of the Baur Collection, Geneva, 1968, vol. 1, nos. A31 and A32; by S. Lee, Asian Art: Selections from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd, Part II, New York, 1975, p. 45, no. 28; and in Song Dynasty Ceramics, Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Japan, 1979, no. 65.

A very similar 'soft' Junyao pomegranate-form waterpot, from the Alexander Collection, is illustrated in R. L. Hobson, Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, London, 1915, pl. 38, fig. 2.

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