PROPERTY FROM A FAR EASTERN FAMILY COLLECTION
A RARE NUMBERED JUNYAO TRIPOD NARCISSUS BOWL, GUTING SHUIXIAN PEN

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A RARE NUMBERED JUNYAO TRIPOD NARCISSUS BOWL, GUTING SHUIXIAN PEN
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY

The stoutly-potted shallow bowl resting on three ruyi feet, decorated around the base and beneath the lipped rim with fifteen and eighteen 'drum-nail' bosses respectively, the rich-finely speckled purple glaze on the exterior thinning on the raised details and on the feet, the glaze on the interior of varied pale blue tones with characteristic 'worm-trails', the base incised with the character si (four) and with a ring of eighteen spur-marks (minute glaze chips)--7¾in. (19.8cm.) diam., stand

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Similar examples inscribed with the numeral si (four) are included in important public collections. Compare with one in the National Palace Museum, Taibei, in the Illustrated Catalogue of Sung Dynasty Porcelain, pl. 66; one in the Tokyo National Museum can be found in Tregear, Song Ceramics, pl. 171. Yet another 'drum nail' bowl similarly inscribed was included in the Exhibition of Important Chinese Ceramics from the Robert Chang Collection, Christie's London, 1993, Catalogue, no. 6

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