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PROPERTY FROM THE DR. AND MRS. CORBIN COLLECTION
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A RARE GREEN JUN BUD-FORM WATER POT Jun water containers of this elegant form, apparently inspired by a lotus
SONG-JIN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY bud, are well known, although green-glazed examples appear to be quite
rare. Those with the more usual blue glaze are well represented in public
The water pot of lotus bud-form is covered inside and out with a thick glaze
and private collections, including some with their original covers, such as
of greyish-green tone thinning to mushroom at the mouth rim and ending in
the example in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete
an irregular line above the low, waisted foot to expose the buf stoneware body.
Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 32 - Porcelain of the Song
3º in. (8.2 cm.) high Dynasty (I), Hong Kong, 1996, p. 242, no. 218, and one in The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, illustrated by S. Valenstein, Handbook of Chinese Ceramics,
$10,000-15,000 New York, 1989 rev. ed., p. 87, no. 79.
宋/金 鈞窯綠釉雞心罐
PROVENANCE
Sotheby & Co., London, 10 November 1959, lot 58.
Bluett & Son, London.
The Dr. and Mrs. Corbin Collection, California.
EXHIBITED
Portland, Selections from the William and Winifred Corbin Collection of
Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, Portland Art Museum, 1 - 29 March 1964, no. 12.
On loan: Portland Art Museum, 1 June 2006 - 22 June 2010.

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