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14. A Large Junyao Green-Glazed Deep Bowl
Song Dynasty (A.D. 960–1279)

with steeply rounded sides curving in very slightly at the rim and rounded at the bottom to a broad
base, raised on a tall ring foot, covered inside and out with a thick opaque glaze of grayish olive-
green tone, with an unglazed medallion at the center of the interior, the recessed base splashed
with glaze.

Height 6 inches (15.3 cm)
Diameter 7 inches (17.8 cm)
Junyao bowls of this large size and deep form are rare, and no other example with green glaze appears to have been
previously published.
A Junyao bowl of similar size and shape covered with a typical lavender-blue Jun glaze is illustrated in The World’s Great
Collections: Oriental Ceramics, Vol. 11, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Tokyo, 1982, no. 45, from the Samuel T.
Peters Collection; and another similar example, also with a lavender-blue glaze is illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the
Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, no. 484.
宋 鈞窯綠釉深缽 高 15.3 厘米 徑 17.8 厘米