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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN COLLECTION
949
A BRACKET-LOBED JUN DISH
YUAN DYNASTY, 14TH CENTURY
The elegant dish is potted with eight petal-shaped bracket lobes and is
covered overall with a crackled glaze of milky blue color thinning to mauve and
mushroom tones on the rim, with three spur marks on the similarly glazed base.
6¿ in. (15.4 cm.) diam.

$10,000-15,000

A similar Jun foliate dish but with purple splash found in a Yuan dynasty
tomb in a suburb of Datong, Shanxi Province, and now in the Datong
Municipal Museum, is illustrated in Complete Collection of Chinese Ceramics
– 10 – Yuan, 2000, pl. 218.
重要美國珍藏
元/明 十四世紀 鈞窯天藍釉海棠式盤

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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN COLLECTION
948
A LONGQUAN CELADON CONICAL BOWL 重要美國珍藏
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279) 南宋 龍泉窯青釉笠式盌
The bowl has conical sides flaring widely from the small, delicate foot, and is
covered overall with a glaze of luminous soft blue-green tone suffused with
golden crackle stopping at the foot ring.
5¬ in. (14.3 cm.) diam.

$8,000-12,000
The rather delicate conical form of this bowl, standing on a small foot, is
shown to good advantage by the even, blue-green glaze. Conical bowls were
used for the drinking of tea, and the Longquan kilns produced such bowls
for both the domestic and export market. Three similar Longquan conical
bowls were discovered in 1991 in Suining, Sichuan province, amongst a
cache of ceramics dating from the late Southern Song period. See Newly
Discovered Southern Song Ceramics, A Thirteenth-Century "Time Capsule",
Tokyo, 1998, pp. 40-1, nos. 36-8. A very similar bowl, recovered from the
Sinan wreck off the coast of Korea, was included in the Special Exhibition of
Cultural Relics Found off the Sinan Coast, National Museum of Korea, Seoul,
1977, pl. 19. A crackle-glazed example was excavated from the Song dynasty
kiln at Shifangxian, and is illustrated in Celadons from Longquan Kilns,
Taipei, 1998, p. 166, nos. 137-1 and 137-2. Another example in the National
Palace Museum, Taipei, is included in Illustrated Catalogue of Sung Dynasty
Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, Lung-ch'üan Ware, Ko Ware and
Other Wares, Taipei, 1974, pls. 17 and 18.
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