Lot 2278. A Jun-glazed deep bowl, Jin-Yuan dynasty, 12th-13th century; 5 9/16 in. (14.2 cm.) diam. Estimate HKD 200,000 - HKD 300,000. Price realised HKD 437,500. © Christie's Images Ltd 2012

The bowl is well potted with deep, rounded sides rising from a short splayed foot. The bowl is covered inside and out with a sky blue glaze thinning to mushroom on the rim and falling in a slightly irregular line onto the neatly cut foot ring to expose the grey ware burnt pale brown in the firing, wood box.

Note: Bowls of similar size and proportion are illustrated in Mayuyama: Seventy Years, vol. I, Tokyo, 1976, no. 398; and in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, no. 492.   

Christie's. Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 28 November 2012, Hong Kong.