JIN DYNASTY (1115-1234)

Compare with five closely related examples. The first previously in the collection of Edward T. Chow, illustrated in The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities Bulletin: Sung Ceramic Designs, no. 42, Stockholm, 1970, pl. 97b; the second from the Art Institute of Chicago, Lucy Maud Buckingham Collection, 1925. 1009; the third, in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics: The World’s Great Collections, vol. 10, Tokyo, 1980, no. 17; the fourth, in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, illustrated in Orientations, June 2000, p. 78, fig. 9; the last example of similar size was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 26 November, 2014, lot 3224.