Lot 34. Pair of Rare Purple-Splashed Jun Dishes, Northern Song dynasty (960-1127. Estimate 7 000 € - 9 000 €. Unsold. Photo Auctionata AG

Stoneware with milky blue glaze and purple splash. Each dish with shallow, slightly rounded body flaring out from the neatly cut foot ring to the everted rim, covered with a pale milky blue glaze and thinning to mushroom on the edge of the rim, the interior decorated with a single purple splash from the rim - Diameter, each: c. 10 cm. Good condition.

Note: Jun ware is one of the ‘five major wares’ of China, along with Ding, Ru, Guan and Ge ware. For many centuries, the Henan Province produced Jun ware, starting in the Tang Dynasty (618-906 AD) until the 15th century, whereby there was a peak of production in the Song Dynasty (960-1278).

Cf. a small jun dish of this form and size lacking the purple splash, formerly in the Edward T. Chow Collection, illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London 1994, vol. 1, p. 220, no. 382, where the author refers to similar dishes in the Ru Kiln Museum, Ruzhou) See, also, the slightly larger plain dish of this form illustrated in The Guennol Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982, vol. 1, pp. 87-88.

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