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Lot Essay
The bowl is well potted with deep, rounded sides rising from a short foot, covered overall with a sky-blue glaze that thins to a beige mushroom tone on the mouth rim.
The present vessel is of an unusual shape with short rounded sides resembling an alms bowl. Compare to a similar Jun bowl in the Suzhou Museum, with a glaze of a slightly lighter tone; another formerly in the Sir Percival David Foundation Collection, now housed in the British Museum, illustrated in Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art: A Guide to the Collection, London, 2002, p.38, no.12; and one published in Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Vol. 1, London, 1994, no. 384.
The present vessel is of an unusual shape with short rounded sides resembling an alms bowl. Compare to a similar Jun bowl in the Suzhou Museum, with a glaze of a slightly lighter tone; another formerly in the Sir Percival David Foundation Collection, now housed in the British Museum, illustrated in Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art: A Guide to the Collection, London, 2002, p.38, no.12; and one published in Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Vol. 1, London, 1994, no. 384.