A FINE LAVENDER GLAZED JUNYAO BOWL

Description:

China, Song/ Yuan dynasty
D. 18,8 cm
Finely potted with deep rounded rises rising from a spreading foot to a slightly incurved rim, unctuously covered overall save for the unglazed footring with a brilliant milky sky-blue glaze thinning to a mushroom colour along the rim and pooling around the foot.
Old southern German private collection, collected since 1990s
Two bowls of this form and glaze, collected by the Palace Museum in Beijing, are published in Selection of Jun Ware. The Palace Museum's Collections and Archaeological Excavation, Beijing, 2013, figs. 6 and 7, together with a slightly larger bowl with a more opaque glaze, fig. 8; two bowls from the Meiyintang Collection are illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994-2010, vol. 1, fig. 387 and vol. 3, fig. 1461 - Small chip to rim, wear inside