NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, LATE 11TH-EARLY 12TH CENTURY

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A JUNYAO SHALLOW DISH
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, LATE 11TH-EARLY 12TH CENTURY
With shallow rounded sides rising from the tapered foot to the everted rim, covered overall with a bluish-turquoise glaze thinning to mushroom at the edge of the rim and continuing over the foot ring to cover the base which has three spur marks surrounding a central countersunk medallion
7 in. (17.7 cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Compare the similar Jun dish from the Robert Barron Collection sold in these rooms, 30 March 2005, lot 279. Two Jun dishes of similar size and shape to the present example, but with splashed copper decoration, in the Palace Museum, Beijing are illustrated in Zhongguo taoci quanji, vol. 12, Junyao, Shanghai, 1983, nos. 11 and 16. The Percival David Foundation also has two dishes of the same shape and size as this lot. See R. Scott, Imperial Taste - Chinese Ceramics from the Percival David Foundation, San Francisco, 1989, p. 39, no. 15. The other dish is of slightly paler color with extensive copper splashes as can be seen in Masterpieces of Chinese Ceramics from the Percival David Collection, Osaka, 1998, p. 51, no. 21.

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