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AN EXTREMELY RARE ‘NUMBERED THREE’ JUN
TRIPOD BULB BOWL
YUAN-MING DYNASTY, 14TH-15TH CENTURY
The sturdily potted bowl has a band of twenty ‘nail-head’ bosses
applied between bow-string borders, and a further seventeen 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 magenta that thins to brownish-olive on the raised
areas. The base has a thin olive glaze and a ring of spur marks, and
is incised with the character san (three).
9 in. (22.8 cm.) diam., double Japanese wood boxes
HK$8,000,000-10,000,000 US$1,000,000-1,300,000
PROVENANCE
Matsushige Hiroda (1897-1973)
Manno Art Museum
An important private collection, acquired circa 2000
LITERATURE
Selected Masterpieces of the Manno Collection, Osaka, 1988, no. 99

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mark inscription inside Japanese wood cover
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