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PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
1723
A RARE AND EXCEPTIONAL ‘NUMBER THREE’ JUN JARDINIÈRE
YUAN-MING DYNASTY, 14TH-15TH CENTURY
The body is molded with six lobes below the correspondingly lobed everted rim, and the exterior is covered
with a lavender-blue glaze shading to brilliant purple color. The interior and the rim are covered with a
pale milky-blue glaze thinning to mushroom, and there are fve drainage holes piercing the base, which is
dressed in a thin brown glaze on the underside and incised with the number san (three).
10æ in. (27.3 cm.,) diam., double Japanese wood box
$2,500,000-3,500,000

PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 5 November 1996, lot 721.
The Dexingshuwu Collection.
The Dexingshuwu Collection; Sotheby’s New York, 18 March 2008, lot 91.
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 8 April 2013, lot 3046.
元/明 鈞窯玫瑰紫葵式花盆 「三」字款

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