A good Junyao jart with lavender-coloured glaze and purple splashes

Description:

China, Yuan Dynasty
D. 13,7/ H. 10,6 cm
Well-shaped with deep, rounded sides that rest on a slightly flared foot and rise to a broad shoulder and a straight rim with two handle grips. The outside is covered with an intensely craquelured, lavender-coloured glaze, which becomes thinner towards the rim and the handles and is decorated with large splashes of purple at the shoulder. Beige body, unglazed at the base and in the lower fifth of the vessel.
From an old South German private collection, acquired at Nagel on 19 May 2001, lot 3907 from the estate of the Dr Guo Ruping Collection (1913-1992), Berlin
Compare a closely related Junyao splashed twin-handled jar, also dated Jin/Yuan dynasty, 13th century, 12.5 cm tall, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, object number 1975.1.1663.- Minimal signs of age, good condition