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13. A Junyao Blue-Glazed Meiping
Jin-Yuan Dynasty, A.D. 12th– 13th Century

of tall slender ovoid form with high rounded shoulders surmounted by a short narrow neck
and small mouth with flared rim, covered with a thick lavender-blue glaze of pale claire-de-lune
tone, the splayed foot and recessed base unglazed and the exposed stoneware fired to yellowish-
tan-brown.

Height 11 ⁄4 inches (29.8 cm)
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A blue-glazed Junyao meiping formerly in the collections of Lord Cunliffe and Frederick Knight is illustrated by Krahl,
Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Volume One, London, 1994, p. 219, no. 380. Another taller blue Jun meiping
from the Schoenlicht and Calmann collections is illustrated in The World’s Great Collections: Oriental Ceramics, Vol. 7, Musée
Guimet, Paris, Tokyo, 1987, pl. 72. The same Jun meiping is illustrated in the catalogue of the special exhibition at the
National History Museum, Taipei entitled Terre de Neige, de Glace, et d’Ombre: Quatorze siècles d’histoire de la céramique
chinoise à travers les collections du Musée Guimet, Taipei, 1999, pp. 70–71, no. 32.

金 — 元 鈞窯天藍釉梅瓶 高 29.8 厘米