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9 avril 2017

A Junyao purple-splashed dish, Northern Song–Jin dynasty (960-1234)

A Junyao purple-splashed 'lotus bud' waterpot, Northern Song–Jin dynasty (960-1234)

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Lot 3215. A Junyao purple-splashed dish, Northern Song–Jin dynasty (960-1234), 18.3 cm, 7 1/8  in. Estimate 400,000 — 600,000 HKD. Unsold. Photo: Sotheby's.

well potted with shallow sides rising from a short foot to a wide everted rim, covered overall save for the foot with a thick milky-blue glaze thinning to a mushroom tone at the edges and liberally decorated with two large lavender splashes on the interior, the glaze faintly suffused with a network of beige crackles, the unglazed foot revealing the grey body burnt brownish-orange in the firing 

ProvenanceGalaxie Company, Hong Kong, 30th December 1987.

NoteThis Junyao dish is remarkable for its rich and attractively distributed purple splashes. Most comparable dishes are predominantly glazed in blue, but a similar dish was sold in our London rooms, 12th November 2003, lot 134. Two Junyao dishes with bright purple splashes from the William Cleverly Alexander Collection were sold in our London rooms, 6th May 1931, lots 144 and 150, the former sold again in these rooms, 21st May 1985, lot 70, the latter now in the Percival David Foundation, illustrated in The World's Great Collections: Oriental Ceramics, vol. 6, Tokyo, 1982, col. pl. 17. 

Sotheby's. Song Ceramics from a Distinguished Private Collector, Hong Kong, 05 Apr 2017, 11:00 AM

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