Dish with Jun glaze. Stoneware body covered in blue and purple glazes. Height: 48 mm. Diameter: 178 mm. Diameter: 104 mm (base). 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 A16. British Museum © The Trustees of the British Museum

Jun stoneware dish. The dish has dark red glaze on the interior and exterior, with bluish tone towards the base on the interior, shading to olive brown where the glaze runs thin on the rim. The base and the inside of the foot ring are unglazed.

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. 

Bibliographic reference: 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