A RARE LARGE BLUE JUNYAO DISH

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A RARE LARGE BLUE JUNYAO DISH
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The deep dish with rounded sides rising to a lipped rim, covered inside and out with a lightly crackled bubble-suffused glaze of milky-blue tone thinning below the rim, the base with five spur-marks encircled by the low unglazed foot burnt orange (restored rim chip)--10 7/8in. (27.5cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Junyao dishes of this very large size are rare. Cf. a dish of this size and shape from the J.T. Tai Foundation offered for sale by Sotheby's Hong Kong, 21 May 1985, lot 3; and a purple-splashed dish from the Umezawa Gallery, Japan, illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol.I, fig. 399

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