Dish with Jun glaze. Stoneware body covered in blue and purple glazes. Height: 38 mm. Diameter: 148 mm. Diameter: 85 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 A15. British Museum © The Trustees of the British Museum

Jun stoneware dish. The dish has purple glaze with blue overtones on the interior and purple glaze with green flecks on the exterior, shading to olive brown where glaze runs thin at the rim. The base is unglazed, and the body has turned brown with black mottling where exposed.

‘Official’ Jun wares have been found at a kiln site near the Juntai terrace, inside the north gate of the administrative seat of Yuzhou prefecture (modern Yuxian). They were made in the early Ming period (about AD 1368 to 1435). 

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