The bowl is well potted with deep, rounded and straight sides rising from a low rising from a low, spreading foot to a slightly inverted rim, and is covered with milky blue and purple splashes suffused with copper green spots. The thick glaze on the exterior stops short of the finely cut foot to expose the biscuit body. The rim and base of the interior are also unglazed and fired reddish-brown, box.

Provenance: The Yangdetang Collection.

Note: A Jun bowl of similar proportions, but of slightly larger size and covered with the more usual pale blue glaze, is illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 1, London, 1994, pp. 220 and 221, no. 383. Compare also a closely related example, also applied with an opaque bluish glaze with purplish-red splashes, included in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976, no. 410, p. 139. Another bowl, from the Falk Collection, of similar size but covered in green and bearing the original cover, was sold at Christie’s New York, 16 October 2001, lot 71.

From the Falk Collection no. 291. A Rare Large Green Junyao Bowl and Dish-Shaped Cover, Song-Jin dynasty, 12th-13th century; 6 3/16in. (15.7cm.) diam. of cover. Sold for 17,625 USD at Christie’s New York, 16 October 2001, lot 71. © Christie's Images Ltd