Dish with Jun glaze. Stoneware body covered in blue and purple glazes. Height: 53 mm. Diameter: 184 mm. Diameter: 101 mm (base). Official Jun ware 官鈞窯; Juntai, Yuxian, Henan province 河南省, 禹縣, 鈞台. Ming dynasty, about AD 1368–1435. On loan from Sir Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art. PDF A14. British Museum © The Trustees of the British Museum

Jun stoneware dish with rounded sides. The dish has blue and purple glaze on the interior and reddish-purple on the exterior, shading to transparent olive brown where it runs thin at the rim. There is a Chinese numeral Jiu (nine) carved on the base, which is unglazed.

Potters made ‘official’ Jun wares in Juntai, Yuxian, Henan province from about AD 1368 to1435. Table wares such as this Jun glazed dish are of this ‘official’ quality but do not bear numbers. 

Bibliographic reference: Yorke Hardy, Sheila, Tung, Ju, Kuan, Chun, Kuang-tung & Glazed I-hsing Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, University of London, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1953

Pierson, Stacey, Illustrated catalogue of Ru, Guan, Jun, Guangdong and Yixing wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, University of London, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1999