A Large 'Jun' Bubble Bowl, Song Dynasty - Photo Sotheby's

the flaring sides rising from a slightly spreading foot to an incurved rim, covered overall in a pale lavender-blue glaze thinning to a mushroom tone around the rim and coagulating just above the foot; 22.9cm., 9in. Estimation: 4,000 - 6,000 GBP

PROVENANCE: Collection of T.Y. Chao.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 18th November 1986, lot 24.

EXHIBITED: From the Tang to the Qing: Chinese Ceramics from circa 618-1850 A.D. from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Peter Thompson, Hull University, Hull, 1996, cat. no. 18.

Sotheby's. Chinese Ceramics from the Collection of Peter and Nancy Thompson. London | 07 nov. 2012 www.sothebys.com