A Purple-Splashed 'Jun' Bowl, Yuan Dynasty - Photo Sotheby's

thickly potted with wide flaring sides supported on a spreading foot, applied overall with a lavender-blue glaze with a large broad purple splash just under one side of the rim, the glaze coagulating unevenly just short of the foot; 20.7cm., 8 1/8 in. Estimation: 3,000 - 5,000 GBP

PROVENANCE: Sotheby's Hong Kong, 3rd May 1994, lot 9.

EXHIBITED: From the Tang to the Qing: Chinese Ceramics from circa 618-1850 A.D. from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Peter Thompson, Hull University, Hull, 1996, cat. no. 46.

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