Lot 701. A large purple-splashed 'Jun' bowl, Yuan-Ming dynasty (1279-1644). Diameter 7 1/4 in., 18 cm. Estimate 4,000 — 6,000 USD. Lot sold 4,375 USD. © Sotheby's.

the steep, flaring sides rising to a slightly incurved rim, covered overall with a lustrous sky-blue glaze transmuting to pale lavender tones, the interior with a single crimson-tinged purple splash, the glaze thinning to a dark variegated brown at the rim and stopping neatly above the base revealing the buff-orange body.

Provenance: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Samuel M. Nickerson (1830-1914) Fund in 1923 (acc. no. 1923.1112).