NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY

The simple form of the current dish well complements the soft opalescent glaze characterising the best Jun wares of this period. A Jun dish with a similar pale blue glaze and everted rim, but with spur marks within the foot ring, is in the National Palace Museum, Taipei (museum number guci 000044N000000000). Another similar dish was formerly in the collection of Mrs. Alfred Clark, illustrated in Basil Gray, Early Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, London, 1953, pl. 84.