a small 'jun' purple-splashed saucer dish Jin / Yuan dynasty

the shallow dish with a slightly convex center, the gently curved cavetto rising to a flat everted rim, covered overall in a thick light-blue glaze with a single dark-blue and purple splash with dotted green accents on the cavetto and interior, the glaze thinning to a translucent mushroom-brown at the edges, three spur marks on the recessed base, encircled by the short foot rim

The bowl is in good overall condition with minor iron spots to the interior and very minute fritting at the inside edge of the rim. There is one small iron spot and one tiny chip to the glaze on the exterior. Inspected under UV light. The colors on the catalogue image are slightly washed out.
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Compare a related purple-splashed 'Jun' dish in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, illustrated in He Li, Chinese Ceramics, London, 1996, pl. 241; and another in Beijing included in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelain of the Song Dynasty (I), Hong Kong, 1996, pl. 226. Another related dish from the Alexander collection, now in the Percival David Foundation, London, was included in the exhibition Imperial Taste: Chinese Ceramics from the Percival David Foundation, Los Angeles, 1989, cat. no. 15; and two related dishes with three and five spur marks, respectively, in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, are published in A Panorama of Ceramics in the Collection of the National Palace Museum: Chun Ware, Taipei, 1999, cat. nos. 56 and 57, both slightly larger in size.