Dish with Jun glaze. Ming dynasty, about AD 1368–1435
Dish with Jun glaze. Stoneware body covered in blue and purple glazes with olive-green on base. Height: 44 mm. Diameter: 160 mm. Diameter: 94 mm (base). Numbered or Official Jun ware 官鈞窯. Juntai, Yuxian, Henan province 河南省, 禹縣, 鈞台. Ming dynasty, about AD 1368–1435. On loan from Sir Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art. PDF 74. British Museum © The Trustees of the British Museum
Jun stoneware dish with shallow, rounded sides and everted rim. The dish has opalescent glaze coloured purple on the interior and exterior with in-glaze copper pigment, appearing green in concentrated areas. Olive brown at the rim.
Potters made ‘official’ Jun wares in Juntai, Yuxian, Henan province from about AD 1368 to1435. Table wares such as this Jun glazed dish are of this ‘official’ quality but do not bear numbers.
Previous owner/ex-collection William Cleverly Alexander ((1840-1916)
Bibliographic reference: Hobson, Robert L, A Catalogue of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain in the Collection of Sir Percival David Bt., F.S.A., London, The Stourton Press, 1934
Yorke Hardy, Sheila, Tung, Ju, Kuan, Chun, Kuang-tung & Glazed I-hsing Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, University of London, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1953
Pierson, Stacey, Illustrated catalogue of Ru, Guan, Jun, Guangdong and Yixing wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, University of London, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1999