Lot 109. A 'jun' dish, Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127); diameter 6 7/8 in., 17.6 cm. Estimate USD 5,000 — 7,000. Lot sold USD 8,125. © Sotheby's.

the flat slightly countersunk center with low rounded sides rising to an everted rim, applied with a pale light-blue glaze splashed with strokes of purple suffused with hues of turquoise-green draining to a mushroom tone around the rim, the unglazed foot and base revealing the grayish ware.

Provenance: Sotheby's Hong Kong, 28th April 1998, lot 714.

Note: Compare a similar dish in the Palace Museum, Beijing, from the Qing Court collection illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Porcelain of the Song Dynasty (I),1996, pl. 226.

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics And Works Of Art, New York, 18 March 2008