NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY

Fluted bowls from the Jun kilns covered with a green glaze, such as the present bowl, are extremely rare. The unusual form is more commonly found with pale blue glazes throughout the Northern Song, Jin and Yuan dynasties: see, for example, such a blue Jun fluted bowl, dated to the Song dynasty, unearthed at Shenzhou City, Hebei Province, and illustrated in Complete Collection of Ceramics Art Unearthed in China – 3 – Hebei, Beijing, 2008, p. 129, no. 129; and a ‘moon-white’ Jun fluted bowl dated to the Jin dynasty excavated in 1978 from a hoard in Shigu, Changge County, Henan Province, and now in the Henan Museum, illustrated in Complete Collection of Ceramics Art Unearthed in China – 12 – Henan, Beijing, 2008, p. 162, no. 162.

Two Yuan-dynasty examples are in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, and illustrated in A Panorama of Ceramics in the Collection of the National Palace Museum: Chün Ware, Taipei, 1999, pp. 168-171, nos. 66 and 57.

A related green Jun fluted bowl, but with slightly deeper, more rounded sides, from the Yangdetang Collection, was offered at Christie’s Hong Kong, 30 November 2016, lot 3115.