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A RARE ‘NUMBERED FOUR’ JUN TRIPOD BULB
BOWL
YUAN-MING DYNASTY, 14TH-15TH CENTURY
The sturdily potted bowl has a band of eighteen ‘nail-head’ bosses
applied between bow-string borders, and a further fifteen bosses
above the three ruyi-form feet. The bowl is covered with a thick
glaze, the interior of milky pale blue and the exterior of mottled
reddish-purple and blue that thins to olive on the raised areas. The
base has a thin olive glaze and a ring of spur marks, and is incised
with the character si (four).
7 æ in. (19.8 cm.) diam., stand, double Japanese wood boxes

HK$12,000,000-15,000,000 US$1,600,000-2,000,000
PROVENANCE
Property from an Asian family collection
Sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 24-25 October 1993, lot 704
Sold at Sotheby’s New York, 18 March 2008, lot 97

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