Lot 803. A purple-splashed Junyao dish, Yuan dynasty (1279-1368). Estimate USD 15,000 - USD 25,000. Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2016

The dish has shallow, rounded sides and is covered with a milky greyish-blue glaze that thins to mushroom at the rim and ends in an irregular line above the unglazed foot. The interior is decorated with four irregular pale green and greyish-white splashes with reddish-purple haloes. 8 ½ in. (21.7 cm.) diam.

Provenance: Mrs. Samuel T. Peters (1859-1943) Collection.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accessioned in 1926.

Christie's. Collected in America: Chinese Ceramics from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 15 September 2016, New York, Rockefeller Plaza