A VERY RARE PURPLE-SPLASHED JUN OCTAGONAL CUP

Jun cups of this form are exceptionally rare. A Jun cup of similar octagonal form and size and with a dragon-head handle, but lacking purple splashes, is illustrated in Zhongguo taoci quanji – 12 - Junyao, Shanghai/Tokyo, 1983, no. 31. A Yaozhou ‘moon-white’ cup dated to the Jin dynasty of similar form and with a dragon-head handle, but with shallower walls, from the Huangbao (Huangopu) kiln site, Tongchuan city, Shaanxi province, and now in the Shaanxi Institute of Archaeology, is illustrated by Zhang Bai (ed.) in Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji (Complete Collection of Ceramic Art Unearthed in China), vol. 15, Shanxi, Beijing, 2008, no. 179.