A FINE JUN-GLAZED LOTUS-BUD SHAPED WATER POT
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A FINE JUN-GLAZED LOTUS-BUD SHAPED WATER POT

YUAN/EARLY MING DYNASTY, 14TH CENTURY

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A FINE JUN-GLAZED LOTUS-BUD SHAPED WATER POT
YUAN/EARLY MING DYNASTY, 14TH CENTURY
The water pot is finely potted with a globular body tapering towards a narrow mouth. It is covered overall with a thick glaze of milky lavender-blue tone with a faint purplish tinge, thinning to mushroom at the rim and ending irregularly above the biscuit foot.
3¼ in. (8.2 cm.) high, stand, box
Provenance
Sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 28 November 1979, lot 34; Sotheby's Hong Kong, 20 May 1987, lot 402

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A number of similar examples have been published. One example is in the Baur Collection, illustrated by John Ayers, Catalogue, vol. I, Geneva, 1968, no. A30; the second is in the Bristol City Art Gallery and included in the 1954 Venice exhibition of Chinese Art, Catalogue, no. 483; a third one was included in Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Ceramics, Kau Chi Society of Chinese Art, Hong Kong, 1981, Catalogue, no. 35 and later sold at Sotheby's London, 11 December 1984, lot 233; another one is in the Eumorfopoulos Collection, Catalogue, vol. 2, pl. XXVI, no. B88; the fifth example is illustrated by John Ayers in Catalogue of the Seligman Collection, vol. II, 1964, pl. XXXIV, no. D.94.

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