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Lot 182
A RARE LARGE DEEP JUN-GLAZED BOWL
Estimated Value:
10.000 € - 15.000 €
Result:
incl. Premium and VAT
Description:
China, Song to early Ming dynastyD. 21 cm
With deep rounded sides supported on a straight foot, tapering to a slightly incurved rim, coverall overall in a thick lavender-blue glaze thinning to a pale brown tone at the mouth rim and stopping short of the neatly trimmed foot.
Collection of the architect Franz Hart (1910 - 1996), acquired in May 1954 from Weinmüller in Munich for DM 500.-, inventory no. 294
A smaller bowl of similar shape, dated 12th c., is preserved in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum London, Bequeathed by J.G. Maxwell Brownjohn, C.43-1965, published Rose Kerr ‚Song Dynasty Ceramics‘. London, 2004. p. 33, no. 23. See also the bowl preserved in the British Museum, acquired 1909, dated Yuan dynasty, reg.no. 1909.0401.18.
Small glaze firing flake to rim, minor traces of age and wear, good condition
