A SMALL JUNYAO BOWL
NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY (AD 960-1234)
The rounded sides are covered in a thick glaze of greyish-blue color paling to a mushroom tone at the slightly inverted rim and stopping unevenly above the buff foot.
3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm.) diam., box
Provenance
Ruth Dreyfus Collection. John Sparks, Ltd., London. Arthur M. Sackler (1913-1987) Collections. Else Sackler (1913-2000) Collection, and thence by descent from within the family.
Exhibited
Jerusalem, Israel Museum, 3500 Years of Chinese Art: Ceramics from the Arthur M. Sackler Collection, 1987.
Lot Essay
A similar bowl of comparable size (9.1 cm.) is illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, Vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976, p. 138, pl. 406.