SONG DYNASTY (960-1279)

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A JUNYAO SHALLOW DISH
SONG DYNASTY (960-1279)
With shallow rounded sides rising from a narrow foot to an everted rim, covered overall with a thick opaque glaze of beautiful milky blue tone thinning to slightly purple on the raise edge of the inner rim, the base similarly glazed
7¼ in. (18.4 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Property from a Distinguished Asian Collector.

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Lot Essay

Compare a smaller jun dish of similar form, formerly in the Edward T. Chow Collection, illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994, vol. 1, p. 220, no. 382, where the author refers to similar dishes in the Ru Kiln Museum, Ruzhou, illustrated in Ruyao de Xin Faxian, 1991, pls. 46 and 128. See also a dish of similar form and glaze in the Guennol Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982, vol.1, pp.87-88.

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