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A JUNYAO PURPLE-SPLASHED ‘LOTUS BUD’ 北宋至金 鈞窰天藍釉紫斑雞心罐
WATERPOT
NORTHERN SONG – JIN DYNASTY 來源：
家適公司，香港，1993年9月30日
with deep rounded sides supported on a neatly cut footring
and tapering to the mouth, the exterior and base unctuously
applied with an opaque blue glaze thinning to a mushroom
tone at the rim, the exterior further accentuated with liberal
splashes of purple, the glaze falling short above the foot
revealing a greyish body burnt to orange in the firing
9.3 cm, 3⅝ in.

PROVENANCE
Galaxie Company, Hong Kong, 30th September 1993.

HK$ 300,000-500,000
US$ 38,700-64,500

A Junyao lotus bud waterpot of this shape and size, from the
British Rail Pension Fund and exhibited on loan at the Dallas
Museum of Art between 1985-88, was sold in our London
rooms, 12th December 1989, lot 85.

Similar waterpots are illustrated in Chugoku toji zenshu
[Complete book of Chinese ceramics], vol. 12, Kyoto, 1983,
pl. 30, from the Shanghai Museum Collection; in Andre Leth,
Catalogue of Selected Objects of Chinese Art in the Museum
of Decorative Art Copenhagen, Copenhagen, 1959, pl. 86;
in Henry Trubner, Royal Ontario Museum. The Far Eastern
Collection, Toronto, 1968, pl. 74; in Suzanne G. Valenstein, A
Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, pl. 79, from
the Metropolitan Museum Collection, New York, together with
a lid. A similar Junyao waterpot was sold in our London rooms,
12th June 2003, lot 114.

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