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A LARGE JUNYAO DISH
Song/Jin dynasty, 11th/12th century
The thickly potted dish rising from a short foot rim to a flat everted
rim and covered with an elegant turquoise-blue glaze with rich purple
splash to one side, the glaze thinning to a mushroom color on the side
of the cavetto and at the rim edge and continuing on the underside to
the foot and interior of the base, five spur marks visible under the buff
foot.
8 5/16in (21cm) diameter
$40,000 - 70,000
金/宋 十一/十二世紀 鈞窯盤

For a slightly smaller dish of identical shape and with the overall
turquoise glaze thinning to a mushroom color at the rim edges and
splashed almost entirely across its surface with a rich purple glaze,
see Margaret Medley, The Chinese Potter, Oxford, 1976, p. 129, pl. III.
For yet another slightly smaller dish that bears comparison, see J.J.
Lally & Co., Oriental Art, Chinese Ceramics A.D. 400-1400, Selections
from an American Collection, March, 2007, no. 7, formerly in the Lord
Cunliffe and then T. Y. Chao Collections.

Another, close in size, and also with purple splashes in the Palace
Museum, Beijing is illustrated in Gugong Bowuyuan Cang Wenwu
Zhenpin Quanji, Liang Song Ciqi I, Vol. 32 (The Complete Collection
of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Beijing, Vol. 32, Porcelain of the
Song Dynasty (I), Hong Kong, 1996, pl. 230, p. 254.

See also the splashed junyao dish of this type from the Eumorfopoulos
Collection, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated by Rose
Kerr, Song Dynasty Ceramics, London, 2004, pl. 26 right. Another
similar dish in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is illustrated in
A Panorama of Ceramics in the Collection of the National Palace
Museum: Chun Ware, Taipei, 1999, pp. 148-149, no. 56.

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