Lot 83. A large 'Jun' dish, Song dynasty (960-1279). Diameter 10 1/2  in., 26.7 cm. Estimate 60,000 — 80,000 USD. Lot sold 175,000 USD. Photo Sotheby's.

the shallow rounded sides rising from a slightly recessed base to a lipped rim, covered overall in a thick lavender-blue glaze thinning at the rim to a light gray color, the glazed base with five spur marks. 

Literature: Chugoku meito ten: Chugoku toji 2000-nen no seika [Exhibition of Chinese Pottery: Two Thousand Years of Chinese Ceramics], Tokyo, 1992, no. 41.

Note: Jun dishes of this large size are quite rare.  See a closely related Junyao dish of identical size illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976, pl. 392; and another, formerly in the Collection of the T.Y. Chao Family Trust (no. 100), sold in our London rooms, 17th November 1999, lot 854. 

Sotheby's. Song Tradition: Early Ceramics from the Yang De Tang Collection. New York, 17 march 2015, 11:00 AM