EARLY YUAN DYNASTY, 13TH CENTURY

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A JUNYAO PURPLE-SPLASHED DISH
EARLY YUAN DYNASTY, 13TH CENTURY
The dish is thickly potted with shallow rounded sides that rise to an everted rim, and is covered with a glaze of rich turquoise blue color that has splashes of finely mottled reddish and turquoise color outlined in purple on the interior, thins to mushroom in the well and on the edge of the rim, and continues onto the exterior to end in a line above the knife-cut foot, exposing the buff-colored ware.
7¼ in. (18.3 cm.) diam.

Provenance

J.J. Lally & Co., New York, circa 2002.

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Lot Essay

A Junyao dish of similar shape and size, also with purple splashes on a milky blue ground, in the Qing Court collection, Beijing, is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 32 - Porcelain of the Song Dynasty (I), Hong Kong, 1996, p. 250, no. 226.

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