NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY

A very similar blue-glazed Jun dish formerly in the collection of Edward T. Chow is illustrated by R. Krahl in Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 1, London, 1994, p. 220, no. 382. The author refers to similar dishes in the Ru Kiln Museum, Ruzhou, Henan province illustrated in Ruyao de xin faxian (New Discoveries of Ru Kiln), Beijing, 1991, pls. 46 and 128 and suggests that this form of dish may have been used together with small matching bowls, as both covers and stands.