Lot 85
85
A JUNYAO BOWL

Details
A JUNYAO BOWL
YUAN DYNASTY

Of flaring conical form, the sides rising from a slightly spreading foot to the incurved rim, covered inside and out in a creamy sky blue glaze with a faint lavender tinge draining to pale mushroom at the rim and pooling at the foot to expose the pale gray body--7 1/8in. (18.2cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

A similar bowl in the National Palace Museum, Taipei is included in the Illustrated Catalogue of Sung Dynasty Porcelain, pl. 75. Compare other examples, from the Eumorfopoulos Collection, illustrated by Hetherington, The Early Ceramic Wares of China, pl. 13, fig. 1; in the Brundage Collection, Catalogue, pl. XXXVI (D); and in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, 1976, vol. I, no. 397. Compare, also, the example formerly in the R.F.A. Riesco Collection, sold in these rooms, December 2, 1993, lot 258