A SMALL ‘JUN’ SAUCER DISH SONG DYNASTY

with shallow rounded sides resting on a tapering knife-pared foot, covered overall in a milky lavender-blue glaze suffused with a network of golden crackles, the glaze thinning to a mushroom tone around the rim and stopping unevenly around the footring, revealing a greyish buff body

Collection of K.T. Powell, until 1963
Bluett & Sons Ltd, London, 1963 (£120).
Collection of R.G. Hill, from 1964 to 1966 (£165)
Bluett & Sons Ltd, London, 1966 (£140).
Collection of Roger Pilkington (1928-69), from 1966 (£220).

The overall condition is very good, with just typical firing imperfections.
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Compare a dish of similar form, sold in our New York rooms, 16th September 2014, lot 113; and a slightly larger one, from the Mount Trust collection, included in the Oriental Ceramic Society exhibition Sung Dynasty Wares. Chün and Brown Glazes, London, 1952, cat. no. 11, and sold at Christie’s New York, 25th March 1998, lot 163. See also a small dish of similar shape, but with purple splashes and attributed to the Yuan dynasty, illustrated in John Ayers, The Baur Collection, Geneva. Chinese Ceramics, vol. 1, Geneva, 1968, pl. A 44.