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fig. 1 fig. 2
Junyao purple-splashed bubble bowl, Northern Song dynasty Junyao purple-splashed bubble bowl, Northern Song dynasty
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 19th May 1987, lot 209 Sotheby’s London, 7th June 2000, lot 93

A related bowl in the Palace Museum, Beijing, with fewer bowls with sparser purple splashes are, for example, in the
purple areas and apparently a paler blue glaze is illustrated in Baur Collection, illustrated in John Ayers, The Baur Collection
Jun ci ya ji. Gugong Bowuyuan zhencang ji chutu Junyao ciqi Geneva: Chinese Ceramics, Geneva, 1968-74, vol. I, nos A
huicui/Selection of Jun Ware. The Palace Museum’s Collection 31 and A 32; in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, from
and Archaeological Excavation, Palace Museum, Beijing, 2013, the Eumorfopoulos collection, published in Rose Kerr, Song
pl. 36; and a slightly smaller bowl in the Palace Museum, also Dynasty Ceramics, London, 2004, pl. 26 front; and in the Sir
with less purple on the blue glaze, is published in The Complete Percival David collection in the British Museum, illustrated in
Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelain of the Stacey Pierson, Song Ceramics: Objects of Admiration, London,
Song Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1996, vol. 1, pl. 222. Other ‘bubble’ 2003, pl. 20.

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