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Lot 178
A FINE SMALL JUN 'BUBBLE' BOWL
Estimated Value:
6.000 € - 10.000 €
Result:
incl. Premium and VAT
Description:
China, Northern Song/ Jin dynasty, 12th c.D. 7,5 am
The bowl has rounded sides rising to a slightly incurved rim, from the short, unglazed foot, and is covered with a thick, crackled glaze of sky-blue tone, thinning to mushroom on the rim. Inscribed box: Song jun tianqing gongshi zhan and Taoci mibao (Secret Treasure of Taoci) and seal guhe and (wen) yu.
Collection Dr. Roland Sonderhoff (1897-1960), no. 0041, received as present 1944 from Engel in Japan, listed in his inventory 1965, no. 65/8, and illustrated in a show case in his house Tokyo Kioi-cho, where he lived between 1952 and 1967. By descent to his daughter Dr. Ursula Lienert (1934-2017), Curator for Asian Art in the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Hamburg (1986-1999)
With its round sides and slightly inverted rim, this simple, yet refined bowl represents one of the classic Jun ware shapes, the ‘bubble bowl’. The name is derived from the illusion of a soapy bubble that appears on the interior when viewed at a certain vantage. A very similar Jun ‘bubble bowl’ was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 6 October 2015, lot 104. An example with purple splash-decoration, also from the Linyushanren Collection, was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 2 December 2015, lot 2808 - Good condition
