NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (960-1127)

Details

A Junyao Lotus Bud-Form Jar
Northern Song dynasty (960-1127)
The elegantly rounded sides rising from a short slightly flaring foot, covered inside and out with a thick lustrous glaze of pale milky-blue tone thinning to lavender and then mushroom at the mouth rim and falling in an irregular line on the brown-dressed foot
3 3/8in. (8.5cm.) high, box

Exhibited

An Exhibition of Important Chinese Ceramics from the Robert Chang Collection, London, Christie's, 2-14 June 1993, no. 4.

Lot Essay

A similar jar was included in the Exhibition of Archaeological Treasures Excavated in the People's Republic of China, Tokyo, 1973, no. 233. Other examples are illustrated by J. Ayers, Baur Collection, Geneva, 1968, vol. I, no. A30; the Eumorfopoulos Collection, Catalogue, London, 1926, vol. II, pl. XXVI, no. B88; W. Hochstadter, Early Chinese Ceramics in the Buffalo Museum of Science, no. 62; in the exhibition of the Hong Kong Kau Chi Society, Ancient Chinese Ceramics, 1981, no. 25; and in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, Tokyo, 1980, vol. 10, no. 167. See, also, the two jars illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. I, London, 1994, p. 223, nos. 392 and 393; and the single jar included in the exhibition, Chinese Art from the Reach Family collection, Eskenazi, London, 8-22 December 1989, no. 23.

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