Lot 902. Property from the Dawentang Collection. A Jun sky-blue glazed bowl, Jin dynasty (1115-1234); 10.5 cm diam. Price realised HKD 635,000 (Estimate HKD 500,000 – HKD 800,000) © Christie's Images Ltd 2026

Provenance: Sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 29 April 1997, lot 506

Literature: Chinese Ceramics from the Dawentang Collection, Vol. I, Hong Kong, 2019, pp.84-87, no.6

Zhongguo Minjian Shoucang Taoci Daxi – Xianggang Aomen Taiwan, Hebei, 2019, p. 88

Regina Krahl, Arts of Asia, Hong Kong, July – August 2020, p.126, fig. 5.

Note : The bowl is well potted with deep, rounded sides rising from a short foot, covered overall with a sky-blue glaze that thins to a beige mushroom tone on the mouth rim.

The present vessel is of an unusual shape with short rounded sides resembling an alms bowl. Compare to a similar Jun bowl in the Suzhou Museum, with a glaze of a slightly lighter tone; another formerly in the Sir Percival David Foundation Collection, now housed in the British Museum, illustrated in Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art: A Guide to the Collection, London, 2002, p.38, no.12; and one published in Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Vol. 1, London, 1994, no. 384.

Christie's. Pearls of The Orient - Treasures from Hong Kong Private Collectors, Hong Kong, 40 April 2026