Lot 2181
2181
A LARGE PURPLE-SPLASHED JUNYAO WATER POT
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A LARGE PURPLE-SPLASHED JUNYAO WATER POT

JIN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY

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A LARGE PURPLE-SPLASHED JUNYAO WATER POT
JIN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY
The vessel of lotus-bud form, is covered inside and out with a glaze of milky-blue color, with a cloud of bluish purple on one side, and thinning to mushroom below the unglazed mouth rim, and falling in an irregular line above the low, waisted foot ring to expose the buff stoneware body.
4 ¼ in. (10.8 cm.) high

Lot Essay

Similar water pots include one illustrated by J. Ayers, The Baur Collection, vol. I, Geneva, 1968, no. A 30; an example with crackled glaze in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 10, Tokyo, 1980, no. 167; and one illustrated by W. Hochstadter, Early Chinese Ceramics in the Buffalo Museum of Science, New York, 1946, no. 62.

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