A JUNYAO BUD-FORM WATER POT

JIN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY

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A JUNYAO BUD-FORM WATER POT
JIN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY
The well-potted body of lotus-bud form covered inside and out with an opaque glaze of pale milky blue color draining to a mushroom tone on the mouth rim and ending in an irregular line on the slightly flared foot burnt brown in the firing, the base similarly glazed
3 3/8 in. (8.5 cm.) high, wood stand

Provenance

Sotheby's, London, 11 December 1984, lot 233.
Greenwald Collection no. 27.

Literature

Gerald M. Greenwald, The Greenwald Collection, Two Thousand Years of Chinese Ceramics, 1996, no. 27.

Exhibited

Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Ceramics, Kau Chi Society, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1981, no. 25.

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Lot Essay

Similar water pots are illustrated by J. Ayers, The Baur Collection, vol. I, Geneva, 1968, no. A 30; an example with crackled glaze in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 10, Tokyo, 1980, no. 167; and one by W. Hochstadter, Early Chinese Ceramics in the Buffalo Museum of Science, New York, 1946, no. 62.

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