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1146 PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED COLLECTION

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A SMALL JUNYAO BOWL
160
NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY
(AD 960-1234)
The rounded sides are covered in a thick glaze of
greyish-blue color paling to a mushroom tone at
the slightly inverted rim and stopping unevenly
above the buf foot.
3¬ in. (9.2 cm.) diam., box

$6,000-8,000

PROVENANCE

Ruth Dreyfus Collection.
John Sparks, Ltd., London.
Arthur M. Sackler (1913-1987) Collections.
Else Sackler (1913-2000) Collection, and thence
by descent from within the family.

EXHIBITED

Jerusalem, Israel Museum, 3500 Years of
Chinese Art: Ceramics from the Arthur M. Sackler
Collection, 1987.

A similar bowl of comparable size (9.1 cm.) is
illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, Vol. 1,
Tokyo, 1976, p. 138, pl. 406.
北宋/金 鈞窯天藍釉小盌

1147
A PURPLE-SPLASHED JUNYAO CONICAL
BOWL

YUAN DYNASTY (1279-1368)
The bowl is covered inside and out with a thick,
milky lavender-blue glaze thinning to mushroom-
brown at the rim and stopping above the purplish-
brown foot. There is a tapering, purple splash on
the interior below the rim.
7 in. (18 cm.) diam., box

$6,000-8,000

PROVENANCE

Ruth Dreyfus Collection, no. 159.
John Sparks, Ltd., London.
Arthur M. Sackler (1913-1987) Collections.
Else Sackler (1913-2000) Collection, and thence
by descent from within the family.

EXHIBITED

Jerusalem, Israel Museum, 3500 Years of
Chinese Art: Ceramics from the Arthur M. Sackler
Collections, 1987.
元 鈞窯藍釉紫斑盌