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PLATE XXXIX
Jar with ovoid body and short neck. Buff stoneware body
with thick, lightly crackled opalescent glaze of pale lavender-
blue colour with purplish suffusions on the shoulders.
The " soft Chun," also called in China " Ma Chun
after a potter named Ma, is regarded by many Chinese
authorities as a Ming production. To judge by the forms of
known examples, its manufacture may well have ranged from
the Sung to the end of the Ming periods.
" Soft Chun." Yuan or early Ming dynasty. H. 45".
In the possession of the Misses Alexander.
