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A RARE PURPLE-SPLASHED JUN DISH
JIN DYNASTY (1115-1234)

金 鈞窯天藍釉紫斑盤

The dish is potted with shallow rounded sides rising to an everted rim, supported on a short ring foot. The
interior is covered overall with a pale sky-blue glaze with vibrant purple splashes. There are fve small spur
marks to the slightly recessed base.

6º in. (15.9 cm.) diam.

£20,000-30,000 $31,000-46,000
€28,000-41,000

PROVENANCE:

With Michael Oriental Ltd., London, 22 March 2005.
From the Collection of Francis Golding (1944-2013).

See two similar examples, dated to the Jin to Yuan period, in the National Palace Museum in Taipei,
illustrated in A Panorama of Ceramics in the Collection of the National Palace Museum, Chun Ware,
Taipei, 2000, pp. 148-151, nos. 56 and 57. Also compare the present lot to the purple-splashed dish in
the Percival David Collection at the British Museum, illustrated by R. Scott, in Imperial Taste, Chinese
Ceramics from the Percival David Foundation, London and Los Angeles, 1989, p. 39, no. 15. Another
example is in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, illustrated by Rose Kerr in Song Dynasty
Ceramics, London, 2004, p. 34, pl. 26. A similar dish was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 28 November
2012, lot 2276.

來源: 英國私人藏家弗朗西斯．戈爾丁（1944 -2013）珍藏； 2005年3月22
日購自倫敦古董商Michael Oriental Ltd.

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