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A FINE AND EXTREMELY RARE ‘NUMBERED ONE’
JUN TRIPOD BULB BOWL
YUAN-MING DYNASTY, 14TH-15TH CENTURY
The sturdily potted bowl has a band of twenty-two ‘nail-head’ bosses
applied between bow-string borders, and a further eighteen bosses
above the three ruyi-form feet. The bowl is covered with a thick glaze,
the interior of pale blue and lavender tone and the exterior of mottled
purple that thins to brownish-olive on the raised areas. The base has a
thin brownish-olive glaze and a ring of spur marks, and is incised with
the character yi (one).
9 ‰ in. (25.1 cm.) diam., double Japanese wood boxes
HK$15,000,000-18,000,000 US$2,000,000-3,100,000

PROVENANCE
Sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 1 May 1995, lot 637
Sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 7 May 2002, lot 521
LITERATURE
Sotheby’s Thirty Years in Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2003, p. 123, no. 99
Christie’s 20 Years in Hong Kong 1986-2006 – Chinese Ceramics and
Works of Art Highlights, Hong Kong, 2006, p. 35

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