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Lot Essay
The present jardinière is part of a celebrated group of ‘numbered’ Jun wares, of which lot 542 is also an example. Similar to lot 542, the present rectangular jardinière likely functioned as the stand for a taller flower pot of corresponding form.
A rectangular jardinière of similar size from the Schiller Collection, also inscribed with the number shi (ten) but with ruyi-shaped feet, is now in the Bristol City Art Gallery and is illustrated by Hobson and Hetherington, The Art of the Chinese Potter," p. XXXIII, fig. 1; and another with a lavender-tinged sky-blue glaze, and inscribed with the number jiu (nine), is in the Qing Court Collection and illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 32 - Porcelain of the Song Dynasty (I), Hong Kong, 1996, p. 23, no. 19. A rectangular jardinière with the number shi (ten) from the collection of Robert Chang was sold at Christie’s New York, 21 March 2002, lot 149.
A rectangular jardinière complete with a matching, tapering rectangular flower pot, in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, Tokyo, 1982, vol. 6, no. 49. A tapering, rectangular flower pot in the Qing Court Collection, inscribed with the number shi (ten) and therefore apparently intended to be paired with a jardinière such as the present example, is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 32 - Porcelain of the Song Dynasty (I), Hong Kong, 1996, p. 22, no. 18.
Another 'number ten' rectangular flower pot is illustrated in A Panorama of Ceramics in the Collection of the National Palace Museum: Chun Ware, Taipei, 1999, p. 84-85, no. 25. This flower pot was later incised with the inscription Jianfu Gong Ninghui Tang yong (For use in the Hall of Focused Radiance in the Palace of Established Happiness), suggesting that it was used in the Imperial Palace.
A rectangular jardinière of similar size from the Schiller Collection, also inscribed with the number shi (ten) but with ruyi-shaped feet, is now in the Bristol City Art Gallery and is illustrated by Hobson and Hetherington, The Art of the Chinese Potter," p. XXXIII, fig. 1; and another with a lavender-tinged sky-blue glaze, and inscribed with the number jiu (nine), is in the Qing Court Collection and illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 32 - Porcelain of the Song Dynasty (I), Hong Kong, 1996, p. 23, no. 19. A rectangular jardinière with the number shi (ten) from the collection of Robert Chang was sold at Christie’s New York, 21 March 2002, lot 149.
A rectangular jardinière complete with a matching, tapering rectangular flower pot, in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, Tokyo, 1982, vol. 6, no. 49. A tapering, rectangular flower pot in the Qing Court Collection, inscribed with the number shi (ten) and therefore apparently intended to be paired with a jardinière such as the present example, is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 32 - Porcelain of the Song Dynasty (I), Hong Kong, 1996, p. 22, no. 18.
Another 'number ten' rectangular flower pot is illustrated in A Panorama of Ceramics in the Collection of the National Palace Museum: Chun Ware, Taipei, 1999, p. 84-85, no. 25. This flower pot was later incised with the inscription Jianfu Gong Ninghui Tang yong (For use in the Hall of Focused Radiance in the Palace of Established Happiness), suggesting that it was used in the Imperial Palace.