A large conical stoneware bowl with thick, blue glaze, Junyao ware, later Song (960-1279) or Yuan dynasty (1271-1368)
Lot 818. A large conical stoneware bowl with thick, blue glaze, Junyao ware, later Song (960-1279) or Yuan dynasty (1271-1368). Estimate 4 000/6 000 €. Lot sold 4.000 €. Photo Nagel.
the deep conical bowl is covered on both sides with a milky lavender-blue, thinning and changing to a violet-brown colour with blackish striated glaze close to the rim and stopping in a irregular, thickly swelling border shortly above the ochre-brown, unglazed foot ring and base, good condition; h.: 7,2 - 7,5 cm, diam.: 17,6 - 17,9 cm.
Property from an old and important German private collection, assembled in the 1920's and 30's
Compare: Selection of Jun Ware, the Palace Museum's Coll. & archaeological excavation, Palace Museum, Beijing 2013, no. 34, a large Junyao bowl, (h.: 8,2 cm, diam.: 19,0 cm) of similar shape and a more bright blue glaze, dated to Northern Song to Jin dynasty
Nagel Auktionen, "Asian Art", 07/12/2015
