A FINE AND RARE 'JUN' TEABOWL NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY

the short spreading foot rising to the conical sides to a flared rim, applied evenly overall with a fine 'sky blue' glaze of milky lavender blue suffused with a pale crackle and draining to a mushroom tone at the rim, the glaze pooling unevenly above the foot

Collection of Johannes Hellner, Stockholm.

Sotheby's New York, 20th March 2002, lot 106.

Collection of Francisco Capelo.

Francisco Capelo et. al., Forms of Pleasure. Chinese Ceramics from Burial to Daily Life, London, 2009, pl. 55.

This bowl is in good condition, but does have a pin hole to the glaze to the interior and a 1cm stain to a crackle on the rim. There is an area just above the foot where kiln grit has adhered to the body. There is also two three small areas where the glaze has crawled away from the body above the foot. There is also a pinhole to the glaze to the exterior.
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A slightly larger 'Jun' bowl of this unusual shape, covered in a lavender-blue glaze suffused with specks of purple, from the Toguri collection, was sold in these rooms, 9th June 2004, lot 59; and another is illustrated in Michael Sullivan, Chinese Ceramics, Bronzes and Jades in the Collection of Sir Alan and Lady Barlow, London, 1963, pl. 35c.