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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
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A JUNYAO DEEP BOWL
SONG-JIN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY
The bowl has deep, rounded sides that rise from the small, slightly fared foot and is covered
overall with a glaze of pale blue color that thins to mushroom at the rim and ends in a line on
the foot.
5√ in. (15 cm.) diam.
$12,000-18,000
PROVENANCE:
George Eumorfopoulos (1863-1939) Collection, London.
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 29 October 1991, lot 15.
LITERATURE:
R. L. Hobson, The George Eumorfopoulos Collection Catalogue, vol. II, London, 1926, pl. 21, no.
B 73.
The deep, rounded shape and small foot of this bowl are similar to those of a Junyao bowl of similar
color illustrated in Song Ceramics from the Kwan Collection, Hong Kong, 22 July - 11 September
1994, no. 38. Another bowl, also covered with a pale milky blue glaze is illustrated by R. Krahl in
Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 1, London, 1994, p. 233, no. 386. See, also,
the bowl of slightly smaller size (5Ω in. diam.) sold at Christie’s New York, 18 September 2014, lot
735.
宋/金 鈞窯月白釉盌
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