Lot 83. A Junyao purple-splashed shallow bowl, Jin Dynasty (1115-1234); 14.8cm diam. Estimate HK$200,000 - 300,000. Sold for HK$ 62,500 (€5,915). Photo Bonhams.

Potted with rounded sides rising from a short narrow foot, covered inside and out in a pale lavender-blue glaze thinning to greyish-beige at the mouth rim, the interior with splashes of magenta-purple tones. 

Provenance: Side Tang Collection.

Note: A Junyao bowl in the Sir Percival David collection, is illustrated in S. Pierson, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, A Guide to the Collection, London, 2002, p.39, no.15. See also another bowl in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated by S.G. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1975, p.73, no.41. For another pair of Junyao bubble bowls from the Laiyantang collection, illustrated in 50 Song Ceramics from the Laiyantang Collection, 2009, pp.50-51, no.16.