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2319
A YAOZHOU CELADON CARVED CONICAL
BOWL
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1127)

The deep, fared sides are slightly rounded,
and the interior is carved in the center with
a peony sprig and below the lipped rim with
a band of leafy scroll. The bowl is covered
overall with a glaze of olive-green tone.
7¡ in. (18.8 cm.) diam.

$4,000-6,000

PROVENANCE:

Sotheby’s London, 9 December 1991, lot
122.

北宋 耀州窯青釉刻牡丹紋笠式盌

2320
A RARE JUNYAO FOLIATE-RIMMED VASE
SONG-JIN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY

The vase has a high-shouldered body that
tapers towards the high, conical foot, and
a waisted neck that rises to a scalloped
rim shaped as fve out-curved petals. The
vessel is covered with a matte glaze of
milky blue color decorated with a splash of
reddish purple on one side, which thins to
mushroom on the rim, and ends in a line
above the unglazed foot rim, exposing the
buff ware.
7Ω in. (19 cm.) high

$30,000-50,000

PROVENANCE:

Sotheby’s London, 18 September 2007, lot
235.

Junyao vases of this unusual shape appear to be
quite rare. A somewhat differently proportioned
version of the form, with a blue Jun glaze inside
and out is in the Simon Kwan Collection (see
Song Ceramics from the Kwan Collection, Urban
Council, Hong Kong, 1994, pp. 114-5, no. 39).
A further very similar example is illustrated in The
Tsui Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1991, no. 39.
Another example with even more exaggerated
profle is in the collection of the Victoria and
Albert Museum (see R. Kerr, Song Ceramics,
V&A Publications, London, 2004, p. 32, no. 22).
The V&A vase was undoubtedly intended to be
blue-glazed inside and out, but was misfred, so
that the glaze remains greyish and with extensive
crawling. A Yuan dynasty Jun ware vase with
similarly lobed and down-turned mouth rim, but
with differently shaped body, handles, splashed
glaze, and a stand, was excavated from the
northern ramparts at Beijing in 1971, and is now
preserved in the Capital Museum, Beijing (see
Zhongguo wenwu jinghua quanji - Taoci juan,
Taipei, 1993, p. 358, no. 635).

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