Lot 814. A fine conical stoneware bowl with thick blue glaze, Junyao ware, Song (960-1279) or early Yuan dynasty (1271-1368). Estimate 3 000/5 000 €. Lot sold 3.000 €. Photo Nagel.

the thick lavender-blue glaze with spaced and fine crackles, covering the conical bowl is thinning to a greyish-buff colour at the edge of the rim and stopping shortly above the cut and unglazed thick foot ring of blackish-brown colour, inside below the rim an oval violet coloured splash and on the opposite side, on the outside, close to the gold lacquer restoration a fault in the glaze caused during the firing process;  h.: 8,0 ~ 8,9 cm, diam.: 19,0 ~ 19,2 cm.

Property form an old and important German private collection, assembled in the 1920's and 30's  

Compare: Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji, vol. 5, Shanxi, Science Press Beijing 2008, no. 167, a similar bowl of same form and size with a very similarly shaped violet splash inside below the rim, dated to the Jin and Yuan dynasty, 13th C. BC 

Nagel Auktionen, "Asian Art",  07/12/2015