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Lot Essay
A number of small lavender-splashed junyao bubble bowls have been published both from private and public collections. There are two distinctive shapes, deep bowls, such as the present example, and slightly more compressed bowls which appear to be more common.
A pair of deeply potted lavender-splashed bubble cups measuring 8.5 cm. in diameter from the City Art Gallery, Bristol, were included in the Venice exhibition, Mostra d'arte Cinese and illustrated in the Catalogue, 1954, no. 950; another measuring 8.9 cm., from the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, is illustrated by He Li, Chinese Ceramics, A New Comprehensive Survey, Great Britain, 1996, pl. 238. Bubble cups with more compressed bodies include: one from the collection of Sir Alan and Lady Barlow, illustrated in op. cit, Venice, 1954, no. 476, (8.7cm.); a pair from the Edward T. Chow collection, the T.Y. Chao Collection, later separated, one included in the collection of the Tsui Museum of Art, and most recently sold in our New York Rooms, 16 September 1998, lot 359, the other most recently sold in London, 7 June 2000, lot 93 (both 9 cm.). Cf. further examples illustrated in Ayers, The Baur Collection Geneva, Chinese Ceramics, Geneva, 1968, vol. I, nos. A 31 and 32 (8.5 cm.); and one exhibited by the Asia Society and included in Handbook of the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection, New York, 1981, p. 64 (8.5 cm.).
A pair of deeply potted lavender-splashed bubble cups measuring 8.5 cm. in diameter from the City Art Gallery, Bristol, were included in the Venice exhibition, Mostra d'arte Cinese and illustrated in the Catalogue, 1954, no. 950; another measuring 8.9 cm., from the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, is illustrated by He Li, Chinese Ceramics, A New Comprehensive Survey, Great Britain, 1996, pl. 238. Bubble cups with more compressed bodies include: one from the collection of Sir Alan and Lady Barlow, illustrated in op. cit, Venice, 1954, no. 476, (8.7cm.); a pair from the Edward T. Chow collection, the T.Y. Chao Collection, later separated, one included in the collection of the Tsui Museum of Art, and most recently sold in our New York Rooms, 16 September 1998, lot 359, the other most recently sold in London, 7 June 2000, lot 93 (both 9 cm.). Cf. further examples illustrated in Ayers, The Baur Collection Geneva, Chinese Ceramics, Geneva, 1968, vol. I, nos. A 31 and 32 (8.5 cm.); and one exhibited by the Asia Society and included in Handbook of the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection, New York, 1981, p. 64 (8.5 cm.).