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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
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A LARGE PURPLE-SPLASHED JUNYAO WATER POT
JIN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY
The vessel of lotus-bud form, is covered inside and out with a glaze of milky-blue color,
with a cloud of bluish purple on one side, and thinning to mushroom below the unglazed
mouth rim, and falling in an irregular line above the low, waisted foot ring to expose the buff
stoneware body.
4º in. (10.8 cm.) high
$15,000-25,000
Similar water pots include one illustrated by J. Ayers, The Baur Collection, vol. I, Geneva, 1968, no.
A 30; an example with crackled glaze in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in Oriental Ceramics, The
World’s Great Collections, vol. 10, Tokyo, 1980, no. 167; and one illustrated by W. Hochstadter, Early
Chinese Ceramics in the Buffalo Museum of Science, New York, 1946, no. 62.
金 鈞窯天藍釉紫斑雞心罐
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