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A PURPLE-SPLASHED JUNYAO DISH Purple-splashed Junyao wares are remarkable for their
NORTHERN SONG – JIN DYNASTY splendid colouration, which display a range of blue and
lavender tones. The red derives from a copper-rich pigment
sturdily potted with shallow sides rising from a short foot to brushed to the blue glaze, which is difficult to control in the
a wide everted rim, covered overall save for a carefully cut firing and thus particularly unpredictable in its outcome. This
footring with a thick milky-blue glaze thinning to a mushroom chance effect is part of the ware’s attraction, giving each
tone at the edges, the interior liberally decorated with three piece with a distinct identity, with individual patterns and tonal
large lavender splashes variations created as if by nature. Irregular purple splashes had
19 cm, 7½ in. an immense appeal to the literati and nobility of the time, who
was able to appreciate simplicity, modesty and abstraction as
PROVENANCE opposed to the aristocracy in most regions and periods who
Kaikodo, New York, 21st September 1996. preferred extravagant materials, lavish designs.
Compare a slightly smaller Northern Song example, fired on a
LITERATURE footring, glazed blue on the interior and purple on the exterior,
Kaikodo Journal, New York, 1996, cat. no. 82. preserved in the Palace Museum, Beijing and included in
Selection of Jun Ware: The Palace Museum’s Collection and
HK$ 500,000-700,000 Archaeological Excavation, Beijing, 2013, cat. no. 23. See also a
US$ 64,500-90,500 related blue charger with an everted rim and an unglazed base,
but without purple splashes, in the collection of the Tianjin
Museum, illustrated in ibid., cat. no. 33.
北宋至金 鈞窰天藍釉紫斑盤
來源：
懷古堂，紐約，1996年9月21日
出版：
《懷古堂》，紐約，1996年，編號82

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