金 鈞窰天藍釉紫斑盌

with steep rounded sides rising from to a short neat knife-cut foot to a gently incurved rim, applied overall save for the foot with a lustrous pale milky-blue glaze draining to a mushroom tone at the rim and pooling short of the foot, the exterior and interior liberally decorated with vibrant lavender-blue splashes, later applied with Japanese kintsugi restoration

平野古陶軒，東京
Sadao Ogawa，東京
紐約蘇富比2010年9月15日，編號308
埃斯卡納齊古董行，倫敦

《Junyao》，埃斯卡納齊古董行，倫敦，2013年，編號8

This charming bubble bowl is well potted with a pleasant shape and attractive glaze. As visible in the catalogue illustration, the bowl has Japanese gold lacquer restoration, which appear to originate from a semi-circular break on the rim approximately 1 1/4 inch wide and includes two restored cracks, one running across the foot and the other along one side. The glaze with fine surface wear.
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「鈞瓷無雙」，鈞瓷之名貴在於「入窰一色出窰萬彩」之獨特窰變釉色，非人工能描繪。此器釉色瑩潤，月白地如高山雲霧，內外紫斑如點點紅霞，難怪古人以「 雨過天晴泛紅霞，夕陽紫翠忽成嵐」形容鈞瓷之特色。

此器與 David Home 所藏一例甚為相似，曾展於東方陶瓷學會，見《Sung Dynasty Wares, Chun and Brown Glazes》，倫敦，1952年，編號157，後售於香港蘇富比1987年11月24日，編號 5。仇焱之舊藏兩件釉色同樣豐富，售於倫敦蘇富比1980年12月16日，編號264及265，其後為徐展堂所藏，售於倫敦蘇富比2000年6月7日，編號93。Eumorfopoulos 藏相似例，載於 R.L. Hobson，《The Catalogue of the George Eumorfopoulos Collection of Chinese, Corean and Persian Pottery and Porcelain》，卷2，圖版A31及 A32。一例原為 Schoenlicht 舊藏，後入松岡收藏，錄於《松岡美術館收藏中國陶磁名品展》，東京，1983年，編號36，售倫敦蘇富比1955年12月13日，編號76，其後再轉 H.M. Knight 收藏，售於香港蘇富比1982年5月18日，編號109。

柯玫瑰於書中記，鈞瓷紫斑器，取銅料，着筆幾抹入窰，火去時，青紫交融，現斑斕，五光十色，每窰絕無同者，見《Song Dynasty Ceramics》，倫敦，2004年，頁34。