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~874 A LARGE JUN TRIPOD CENSER 北宋 金ǭ十Հ 十Ӳ世紀ǭ鈞窯天青釉大Ӳ足‐
NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY
The compressed globular body is supported on three short feet and Ϝ源
is surmounted by a wide cylindrical neck rising from the shoulders 希臘駐華大ײ"MFYBOESF + "SHZSPQPVMPT
Ⅷ藏
年
to an everted rim with upturned lip. The censer is covered overall ջ至 年ջ初
後於家族流傳
藍理捷
紐約
編號
with a lightly crackled sky-blue glaze of even tone thinning at the
rim to a pale mushroom color.
6 in. (15.2 cm.) high, hardwood stand, cloth box The large size of this censer is very unusual as most Jun censers are
of smaller size with somewhat shorter necks. A Jun censer of similar
$40,000-60,000
size is illustrated by R. Hobson in A Catalogue of Chinese Pottery and
PROVENANCE: Porcelain in the Collection of Sir Percival David Bt., F.S.A., London,
Collection of Alexandre J. Argyropoulos (1894-1978), Greek 1934, pl. LXVII; and again by S. Pierson in Illustrated Catalogue of Ru,
Ambassador to China, late 1940s-early 1950s, and thence by Guan, Jun, Guangdong and Yixing Wares in the Percival David Foundation
descent within the family. of Chinese Art, London, 1999, rev. ed., p. 38, col. pl. 95, with
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4247. description on p. 50. See, also, a smaller Jun censer of very similar
form with sky-blue glaze in the collection of the Idemitzu Museum
of Art, illustrated in Sį ji: shinpo no yakimono (Song Ceramics: Utensils
of Sublime Beauty), Tokyo, 2018, p. 72, no. 54, with description on
p. 147, and the smaller Jun censer with shorter neck sold at Christie's
New York, 18-19 March 2021, lot 886.

873 A JUN DEEP BOWL 北宋 金ǭ十一 十Հ世紀ǭ鈞窯天青釉盌
NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY
The bowl has deep rounded sides rising from the slightly tapered Ϝ源
foot to the slightly incurved rim, and is covered overall with a 希臘駐華大ײ"MFYBOESF + "SHZSPQPVMPT
Ⅷ藏
glaze of milky, sky-blue tone thinning to mushroom at the rim 年ջ至 年ջ初
後於家族流傳
and falling in a somewhat irregular line onto the foot. The recessed, 藍理捷
紐約
編號
unglazed base is inscribed with two characters in faint black ink.
7Ω in. (19.1 cm.) diam., cloth box
$8,000-12,000
PROVENANCE:
Collection of Alexandre J. Argyropoulos (1894-1978), Greek
Ambassador to China, late 1940s-early 1950s, and thence by
descent within the family.
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4243.

A similar blue-glazed Jun bowl is illustrated by R.Krahl in
Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994,
vol. I, p. 221, no. 387. See, also, the Northern Song blue-glazed
Jun bowl of this form and of similar size in the collection of Henan
Provincial Museum, illustrated in Zhongguo Taoci Quanji: Song
(The Complete Works of Chinese Ceramics: Song), vol. 7,
Shanghai, 1999, p. 184, no. 186, with description on p. 274.

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