A rare Junyao green bowl, Song-Yuan Dynasty (960-1368)
Lot 19. A rare Junyao green bowl, Song-Yuan Dynasty (960-1368); 22.7cm (9in) diam. Estimate £ 1,500-2,000. Sold for £ 7,562 (€ 8,461). Photo: Bonhams.
The vessel with deep rounded sides, covered all over with a lightly crackled sage-green glaze, thinning at the rim to a mushroom-grey tone, falling short of the foot, a splash of glaze to the recessed base.
Provenance: Sotheby's London, 13 December 1988, lot 115
A European private collection.
Note: See a similar green Jun bowl, Song dynasty, illustrated by Bo Gyllensvard, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, pl.89; which was later sold at Sotheby's London, 5 November 2008, lot 528.
Compare also with a similar green Junyao bowl, Song/Jin dynasty, which was sold at Sotheby's New York, 13 September 2017, lot 80.
From the Collection of Mrs. Edwin Sibley Webster (1870-1969), Boston, Massachusetts, and thence by descent. A green 'Jun' bowl, Song-Jin dynasty (960-1234). Diameter 7 5/8 in., 19.4 cm. Estimate 6,000 — 8,000 USD. Lot sold 25,000 USD at Sotheby's New York, 13 September 2017, lot 80. Photo: Sotheby's.
Cf. my post: A green 'Jun' bowl, Song-Jin dynasty (960-1234)