A Junyao blue-glazed dish, Northern Song dynasty | 北宋　鈞窰天藍釉折沿盤

Mayuyama & Co., Ltd, Tokyo.

Acquired from the above in 2015.

So Gen no Bijutsu [Art of the Song and Yuan Dynasties], vol. 4, Osaka Municipal Art Museum, Osaka, 1978, cat. no. 1-85.

Song Ceramics, Mayuyama & Co., Ltd, Tokyo, 2014, cat. no. 17.

Tosetsu / A Monthly Journal Published by the Japan Ceramic Society, vol. 210, September 1970, n.pag.

Mayuyama: Seventy Years, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976, pl. 394.

Osaka Municipal Museum of Art ed., So Gen no Bijutsu (Arts in Song and Yuan dynasties), Tokyo, 1980, pl. 111.

First documented as early as 1970 in Tosetsu, this dish was described by Gakuji Hasebe as a rare, beautiful and truly excellent piece of Jun ware, with the foot carefully finished and a glaze of heavenly blue, flawlessly fired to achieve a beautiful, glossy finish.

The shallow and sturdy form of this dish, with a wide everted rim, represents a classic shape of Jun ware produced at kilns in Henan province. One of the 'Five Classic Wares' of the Song dynasty, these wares are known for their ravishing blue glazes, which were not achieved from pigment but from an optical illusion where minute spherules of glass in the glaze scattered blue light. Unlike the other classic wares of the Song dynasty, the porous and thick body of Jun ware was best suited for simple forms, such as this charming dish.

Two slightly smaller dishes in the collection of the Beijing Palace Museum are illustrated in Selection of Jun Ware. the Palace Museum's Collection and Archaeological Excavation, Beijing, 2013, pls 18 and 19; two slightly larger dishes were sold in our London rooms, the first from the collection of Edward T. Chow, published in Basil Gray, Early Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, London, 1952, pl. 84, sold on 16th December 1980, lot 272, and the second, 10th December 1991, lot 133. See also a dish of similar size from the Tianminlou Collection, sold in these rooms, 30th May 2019, lot 12; and another from the Hirano Kotoken Collection, sold in these rooms, 8th April 2023, lot 3510.

Compare also two dishes that were fired on five spurs, in the Taipei Palace Museum, illustrated in A Panorama of Ceramics in the Collection of the Palace Museum: Chun Ware, Taipei, 1999, pls 54 and 55; a dish in the Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo, illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, pl. 495; and a dish from the Sir Percival David Collection, now in the British Museum, London, published in Illustrated Catalogue of Ru, Guan, Jun, Guangdong and Yixing Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 1999, pl. A66.

來源

繭山龍泉堂，東京

2015年購自上述來源

展覽

《中国美術展シリーズ：宋元の美術》，大阪市立美術館，大阪，卷四，1978年，編號1-85

《宋磁》，繭山龍泉堂，東京，2014年，編號17

出版

《陶説》，210期，1970年9月，無頁碼

《龍泉集芳》，卷1，繭山龍泉堂，東京，1976年，圖版394

大阪市立美術館編，《宋元の美術》，東京，1980年，圖版111

此盤於1970年《陶説》已有記載，長谷部樂爾描述此盤為鈞窰中罕見優美之佳作，燒造精湛，釉色瑩潤光潔，妙不可言。

鈞窰天藍釉盤，淺壁寬沿，經典雋永，名列宋朝五大名窰，天藍釉色澄澈明豔，胎骨厚實，器行簡素，韻味悠長。

北京故宮博物院藏二件較小鈞窰盤，錄於《鈞窰雅集：故宮博物院珍藏及出土鈞窰瓷器薈萃》，北京，2013 年，圖版18及19；倫敦蘇富比售出二件較大盤器，其一出自仇焱之收藏，出版於 Basil Gray，《Early Chinese Pottery and Porcelain》，倫敦，1952年，圖版84，1980年12月16日售出，編號272；另一售於1991年12月10日， 編號133。再可比較兩例，尺寸相近，其一為天民樓舊藏，售於香港蘇富比，2019年5月30日，編號12；另一為平野古陶軒舊藏，售於香港蘇富比，2023年4月8日，編號3510。

比較台北故宮博物院藏二盤，見五支釘痕，載於《故宮藏瓷大系：鈞窰之部》，台北，1999年，圖版54及55；東京出光美術館藏一盤，錄於《Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection》，東京，1987年，圖版495；大維德基金會藏一例，現存於倫敦大英博物館， 刊於《Illustrated Catalogue of Ru, Guan, Jun, Guangdong and Yixing Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art》，倫敦，1999年，圖版A66。