A 'Jun' lavender-blue-glazed dish, Northern Song dynasty | 北宋 鈞窰天藍釉盤

English Private Collection.

John Sparks Ltd., London, 20th November 1989.

Marchant, London.

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John Sparks Ltd.，倫敦，1989年11月20日

馬錢特，倫敦

Chinese Ceramics Tang to Song, Marchant, London, 2022, cat. no. 36.

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《中國陶瓷：由唐至宋》，馬錢特，倫敦，2022年，編號36

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.

Compare a closely related dish in the Idemitsu Museum of Art, Tokyo, included in Song Ceramics, Utensils of Sublime Beauty, Tokyo, 2018, pl. 58; another from the collection of Sir Joseph E. Hotung, exhibited in the Oriental Ceramic Society exhibition Sung dynasty wares: Chün and brown glazes, London, 1952, cat. no. 75, later included in the exhibition Recent Acquisitions, Marchant, London, 2002, pl. 2; and a third from the collection of Edward T. Chow, published in Basil Gray, Early Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, London, 1952, pl. 84, sold in our London rooms, 16th December 1980, lot 272.

'Jun' dishes with purple splash are also well known. See three examples, one in the Qing Court Collection, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Porcelain of the Song Dynasty (I). Hong Kong, vol. 32, 1996, pl. 226; another from the Baur Collection, illustrated in John Ayers, The Baur Collection: Chinese Ceramics, vol. 1, Geneva, 1968, pl. A33; and a third from the Klas Fahraeus Collection, exhibited in Junyao, Eskenazi, London, 2013, cat. no. 10.