A GOOD 'JUN' LAVENDER-GLAZED WATER POT NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY

of bud form, raised on a short foot, covered in a rich lavender glaze thining at the rim to an olive green, revealing the buff coloured body, the glaze trailing over the footrim, exposing the burnt orange unglazed body

The water pot is in overall good condition. It has very light overall rubbing and few minor scratches to the glaze.
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A 'Jun' lotus bud waterpot of this elegant form, distinctive glaze and small size, from the British Rail Pension Fund and exhibited on loan at the Dallas Museum of Art between 1985-1988, was sold in these rooms, 12^th December 1989, lot 85.

A similar waterpot is illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 1, London, 1994, pl. 393, together with a vessel of this form but decorated with purple splashes, pl. 392; another, also with a plain blue glaze, in the Baofeng County Cultural Relics Bureau, is included in Ruyao de xin faxian, Beijing, 1991, pl. 107; and one was sold in these rooms, 14^th November 2000, lot 139.

Related 'Jun' waterpots are illustrated in Chugoku toji zenshu, vol. 12, Kyoto, 1983, pl. 30, from the Shanghai Musuem collection; in Andre Leth, Catalogue of Selected Objects of Chinese Art in the Museum of Decorative Art Copenhagen, Copenhagen, 1959, pl. 86; in Henry Trubner, Royal Ontario Museum. The Far Eastern Collection, Toronto, 1968, pl. 74; and in Suzanne G. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, pl. 79, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.