AN UNUSUAL JUN-STYLE HANDLED BOWL

18TH/19TH CENTURY

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AN UNUSUAL JUN-STYLE HANDLED BOWL
18TH/19TH CENTURY
Made in imitation of Song dynasty prototype, of rounded shape with lobed everted handle, covered overall with an opaque glaze of mottled pale and dark blue tone thinning on the edges and also covering the rounded base which has three spur marks showing the dark brown ware
7 3/8 in. (8.8 cm.) across, wood stand, box

Provenance

Edward T. Chow.
M.C. Wang Collection, China, formed through the 1940s, and thence by descent to the present owners.

Literature

H.D. Ling and E.T. Chow, Collection of Chinese Ceramics from the Hall of Leisurely Pastime, vol. II, Hong Kong, privately printed, 1950, no. 79.

Lot Essay

This unusual vessel was made in imitation of Song dynasty prototypes such as the two Junyao bowls of the same rounded shape with flanged handle, and spur marks on the rounded base, included in the Oriental Ceramic Society exhibition, The Arts of the Sung Dynasty, TOCS, vol. 32, 1959-1960, pl. 23, no. 43 and pl. 24, no. 42.

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