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A LARGE AND VERY RARE PURPLE-SPLASHED JUN BOWL

NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY (960-1234)

The large bowl is covered overall with a pale sky-blue glaze, applied liberally on the exterior with
large splashes of purple, the unglazed foot ring revealing the purplish-brown body.

9 in. (23 cm.) diam., box

HK$4,000,000-6,000,000 US$520,000-780,000

PROVENANCE
Acquired in Taipei in the 1980s

The current bowl appears to be unique as no other Jun bowls of this size and form appear to have
been published. A related Jun blue-glazed bowl of slightly larger size (25.4 cm. diam.) was found
in the Shigu hoard in Henan province, illustrated in Complete Collection of Ceramic Art Unearthed
in China: Henan, vo. 12, Beijing, 2008, no. 161. The Shigu hoard example has a very subtle waist
around the mouth and a straight foot ring. The well-articulated waist and spreading foot as seen on
the present bowl are likely to be developments from the Shigu hoard example.

Jun bowls of this large size are more commonly found without the waisted mouth such as a Jun
blue-glazed bowl of slightly smaller size (22 cm. diam.) illustrated in Zhongguo taoci quanji: Junyao,
vol. 12, Shanghai, 1983, no. 1.; and with fluted sides and conforming bracket-lobed rim, such
as a blue-glazed example also from the Shigu hoard, illustrated in Complete Collection of Ceramic
Art Unearthed in China: Henan, op.cit., no. 162 and a green-glazed example in this sale, lot 3115.
Compare also to a large purple-splashed Jun bowl of later date sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 1 June
2016, lot 3309.

北宋/金 鈞窯天青釉紫斑大缽

來源
1980年代購於台北

鈞窯束口大缽極為罕見，目前尚無與本拍品相同的例子見諸出版。河南省長葛縣石固窖藏出土有一件
鈞窯天藍釉大盌，淺束口，直圈足，見2008年北京出版《中國出土瓷器全集：河南》，卷12，編號
161。本件拍品的深束口和外撇圈足或是由石固窖藏例子的器形發展而來。

較常見的鈞窯大盌器形有弧腹直口和菱花式兩種，前者可參見1983年上海出版《中國陶瓷全集：鈞
窯》，卷12，編號1著錄的一件；後者的例子有同為石固窖藏出土的一件天藍釉例，載於《中國出土
瓷器全集：河南》，編號162以及本場拍賣中的一件綠釉例，拍品3115號。飾有紫斑的鈞窯大盌可參
考香港佳士得2016年6月1日拍賣的一件元/明鈞窯紫斑大盌，拍品3309號。

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