Lot 383. A large Junyao blue-glazed bowl, Northern Song-Jin dynasty (960-1234); 22.5 cm, 8⅞ in., Japanese wood box. Estimate: 200,000 - 300,000 HKD. Lot sold 529,200 HKD. Photo: Sotheby's.
Provenance: Collection of Robert Hartfield Ellsworth (1929-2014), New York.
Literature: The Rainbow Aloft: Jun ware, Hong Kong, 2020, pl. 21.
Jane Sze, 'Some Forms and Uses of Jun Wares', Arts of Asia, November-December 2020, vol. 50, no. 6, pp. 112-117, fig. 3.
Sotheby's. China / 5000 years, Hong Kong, 27 November 2020