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PROPERTY FROM THE RUI XIU LOU COLLECTION
AN EXTREMELY RARE ‘JUN’ FOLIATE-RIM VASE
NORTHERN SONG/JIN DYNASTY
of archaic zun-form, the central globular bulb with a narrow
ridge supported on a tall splayed foot, the elegant neck
sweeping up the everted rim, the mouth festooned with
five lobed, radiating petals, evenly covered overall in a
lustrous lavender-blue glaze mottled with lilac and milk-white
highlights, thinning to a mushroom color at the rim of the
mouth, the glaze stopping short of the footring, revealing the
ware burnt orange-brown in the firing
30.2 cm, 11⅞ in.
PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s New York, 4th June 1986, lot 45.
Hirano Kotoken Co., Tokyo.
Collection of T.T. Tsui (ref. SJ1).
Sotheby’s New York, 11th-12th September 2012, lot 131.
EXHIBITED
The Tsui Museum of Art, Hong Kong.
LITERATURE
The Tsui Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1991, pl. 39.

‡ £ 500,000-700,000
HK$ 5,140,000-7,190,000 US$ 655,000-920,000

北宋/金 鈞窰花口尊

來源
紐約蘇富比1986年6月4日，編號45
平野古陶軒，東京
徐展堂私人收藏（參考號SJ1）
紐約蘇富比2012年9月11至12日，編號131
展覽
徐氏藝術館，香港
出版
《徐氏藝術館》，香港，1991年，圖版39

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