Lot 1045. A purple-splashed 'Jun' conical bowl, Yuan-Ming dynasty (1279-1644). Diameter 7 7/8  in., 20 cm. Estimate $6,000 - $8,000. Sold: $7,500. © Sotheby's

robustly potted rising from a slightly splayed low foot, covered inside and out with a milky-blue glaze shading to gray at the rim, the interior dappled with eight free-form purple splashes, the glaze falling short of the foot on the exterior to reveal the coarse clay burnt orange in the firing.

Sotheby's. Saturday at Sotheby's: Asian Art, New York, 18 March 2017