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A RARE GREEN ‘JUN’ BOWL AND                         A HENAN BLACK-GLAZED ‘OIL-                          A SMALL ‘DING’ BOWL
COVER                                               SPOT’ BOWL                                          NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY
NORTHERN SONG / JIN DYNASTY                         NORTHERN SONG / JIN DYNASTY
                                                                                                        with deep rounded sides rising to a lipped rim, all
covered overall with an olive-green glaze stopping  the interior nished with a thick ridge below the    supported on a slightly recessed base and foot,
short of the foot, the clay body of the rim and at  rim, covered overall with a lustrous brown-black    the white stoneware body covered overall with an
the base of the interior left exposed, the dish-    glaze su used with a dense pattern of silver ‘oil-  ivory-tinged glaze, the rim left unglazed
shaped cover similarly glazed, Japanese wood        spots’, thinning at the rim and continuing over     Diameter 4⅛ in., 10.5 cm
box (3)                                             the upper half of the exterior, the lower body and
Diameter 4¾ in., 12.2 cm                            base applied with a thin teadust-brown glaze, the   PROVENANCE
                                                    foot unglazed                                       Purchased in San Francisco, 1987.
Compare a similar green ‘Jun’ bowl and cover        Diameter 4¾ in., 12 cm
from the Falk Collection sold at Christie’s New                                                         $ 4,000-6,000
York, 16th October 2001, lot 71; and another, with  PROVENANCE
a crackled glaze, from the collection of Frederick  Eskenazi Ltd., London, 1987.                        ⊿⬳ġġġ⭂䩘䘥慱⮷䙴
Knight sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 18th May
1982, lot 18.                                       The dating of this lot is consistent with the
                                                    result of a thermoluminescence test, Oxford
$ 2,000-3,000                                       Authentication Ltd., sample no. 466x27.

⊿⬳ġİġ慹ġġġ懆䩘曺慱味䙴                                     $ 2,000-3,000

                                                    ⊿⬳ġİġ慹ġġġ湹慱㱡㺜䲳䙴

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