A purple-splashed 'Junyao' dish, Song-Yuan dynasty. Estimate  150,000 — 250,000 HKD. Lot sold 325,000 HKD. Photo courtesy Sotheby's

finely potted with shallow sides rising from a carefully cut footring to an everted rim, applied overall save for the footring with a pale bluish-lavender glaze draining to a mushroom tone around the extremities, the interior decorated with a single purple splash from the rim; 10 cm., 4 in.

Provenance:Sotheby's London, 19th June 2002, lot 32. 

Note: A similar dish is illustrated in Robert Schmidt, Chinesische Keramik von der Han-Zeit bis zum XIX. Jahrhundert, Frankfurt am. Main, 1924, pl. 47f; and a slightly larger dish is included in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. I, Mayuyama & Co., Ltd., Tokyo, 1976, pl. 403. Another from the collection of Edward T. Chow was sold in our London rooms, 16th December 1980, lot 603.

Sotheby's. Contemporary Literati: Curiosity, Hong Kong, 05 avr. 2015