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AN UNUSUAL IRIDESCENT PALE-LAVENDER-GLAZED JUN-
TYPE LOBED JAR
Qing Dynasty
The globular body divided into eight lobes with four vertical ribs,
below a raised band at the shoulder and a hollowed torus-form neck,
a shallow raised band at the tapering foot, all under a viscous glaze
with shifting tones of lavender with subtle celadon and purple shades,
the glaze pooling in tears at the unglazed foot ring, the convex base
lavender glazed.
8in (20.3cm) high

$500 - 700
清 窯變釉瓜棱罐

Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價
Provenance:
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Colman, 1893
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1893-present

來源：
Samuel Colman 伉儷捐贈，1893 年
大都會藝術博物館，1893 年迄今

For a smaller jar of melon shape with a Jun-type glaze, formerly in the
A. L. Hetherington Collection, see R. L. Hobson and A.L. Hetherington,
The Art of the Chinese Potter, New York, 1923, pl.XXVI, fig.1.
The Colman gift included a wide variety of both Chinese and Japanese
ceramics. The former ranging from the Han dynasty through the Tang,
Song (that included at least six Jun-type vessels), Ming and Qing
dynasties. The Japanese ceramics included Raku ware and other
thickly glazed vessels from a variety of kilns.

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