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THE DR. AND MRS. ALEX YIP JUN FOLIATE-RIM BOWL
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A RARE AND IMPORTANT LARGE JUN FOLIATE RIM BRACKET-LOBED BOWL Jin Dynasty
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A RARE AND IMPORTANT LARGE JUN FOLIATE RIM BRACKET-LOBED BOWL
Jin Dynasty
The deep bowl under a pale creamy-blue-glaze that variously pools and thins to the interior and exterior lobes highlighting the lightly ribbed form and further thinning to a pale-olive color below the rim, the stoneware bowl supported on a tall slightly spreading foot that is partially glazed above the biscuit foot rim, the sloping interior foot rim and base with areas of pooling glaze and orange-brown-fired unglazed patches.
9 3/8in (23.9cm) across;
4 1/4in (10.9cm) high;
3 3/8in (8.6cm) across foot
(fitted box).
The deep bowl under a pale creamy-blue-glaze that variously pools and thins to the interior and exterior lobes highlighting the lightly ribbed form and further thinning to a pale-olive color below the rim, the stoneware bowl supported on a tall slightly spreading foot that is partially glazed above the biscuit foot rim, the sloping interior foot rim and base with areas of pooling glaze and orange-brown-fired unglazed patches.
9 3/8in (23.9cm) across;
4 1/4in (10.9cm) high;
3 3/8in (8.6cm) across foot
(fitted box).
Footnotes
金 鈞窯月白釉葵口大碗
Provenance:
Dr. and Mrs. Alex Yip, Hong Kong
Eskenazi Ltd., London
Exhibited:
University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, Alchemy in Blue, Ancient Jun Ware from the Yip Collection, Hong Kong, 2008
Eskenazi Ltd., Junyao, London, 31 October-22 November 2013
Published:
University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, Alchemy in Blue, Ancient Jun Ware from the Yip Collection, Hong Kong, 2008, no. 5
Eskenazi Ltd., Junyao, London, 2013, pp. 70-73, no. 11
來源：
香港琳標堂舊藏
倫敦埃斯卡納齊
展覽：
香港大學美術博物館，《紫艷凝青：琳標堂藏古代鈞瓷》，香港，2008 年
埃斯卡納齊，《鈞窯》，倫敦，2013 年 10 月 31 日至 11 月 22 日
出版：
香港大學美術博物館，《紫艷凝青：琳標堂藏古代鈞瓷》，香港，2008 年，圖版編號 5
埃斯卡納齊，《鈞窯》，倫敦，2013 年，頁 70-73，圖版編號 11
This stunning bowl is one of only five published examples of this size. The charm of early Jun ware was represented in its simple form, refined clay body, and a creamy blue glaze of various shades. It was praised by Ming dynasty connoisseurs as one of the 'Five Classic Song Wares'. Production took place in ancient Junzhou, present day Yuzhou in Henan province beginning in the Northern Song dynasty and flourished in the Jin and Yuan dynasties. An array of elegant vessels was made, but the current bowl stands alone as a masterpiece of Junzhou production during this seminal period.
See a closely related bowl in the collection of the Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated by Yu Peijin, A Panorama of Ceramics in the Collection of the National Palace Museum: Chün Ware, Taipei, 1999, pp. 168-169, no. 66, of slightly smaller size and in a 'powder blue' (fenqing, 粉青) glaze (fig. 1), together with another Jun bowl of this form in bluish-green (tianqing, 天青) crackled glaze (fig. 2), op. cit., pp. 169-170, no. 67. The museum's 'powder blue' Jun bowl was included in the 1935-1936 International Exhibition of Chinese Art; see Illustrated Catalogue of Chinese Government Exhibits for the International Exhibition of Chinese Art in London, Volume II: Porcelain, p. 36, no. 5, described as Song dynasty. Recent studies on archaeology finds have slightly revised the dating attribution of Jun ware, including finely made bowls of this type. The two Palace Museum, Taipei, Jun bowls have now been described as Yuan dynasty by noting a closely related bracket-lobed dish excavated in 1958 from the tomb of Feng Daozhen (buried on the 2nd year of Zhiyuan, 1265) in Datong, Shanxi province.
Another very similar Jun bowl in the collection of the Henan Museum, unearthed in 1978 from a cache in Shigu, Changge county, is illustrated on the museum's website and described as Song dynasty with a 'moon white' (yuebai, 月白) glaze. (fig. 3) Several Jun bowls and dishes of very high quality were found in this well-preserved cache that they were described in a 1983 excavation report as from the Northern Song dynasty, but in the recent scholarly discussions, Yang Ailing noted in 'Revisit the Dating on a few Cache Jun Wares in the Collection of the Henan Museum', Proceedings of a Symposium Held in China in 2005 on the Jun Kiln at Yuzhou, Zhengzhou, 2007, pp. 92-95, col. pl. 10-4, that the Henan Museum bracket-lobed Jun bowl should be attributed to the Jin dynasty.
Compare also the bracket-lobed Jun bowl with purple splashes over a blue glaze, from the collection of Sir Percival David and now in the British Museum, first illustrated by R. L. Hobson, A Catalogue of Chinese Pottery in the Collection of Sir Percival David, London, 1934, pl. LXVIII, and exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, International Exhibition of Chinese Art 1935-1936, London, 1935-6, no. 1076. The David Jun bowl was later published by Pierson, Illustrated Catalogue of Ru, Guan, Jun, Guangdong and Yixing Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 1999, p. 45, no. 77, described as Jin dynasty and noted by the author that 'the indentations on the rim have been cut with a blade rather than moulded.' (fig. 4)
Two closely related but less refined Jun bowls were previously sold at auctions: one in a light blue glaze from C.T. Loo sold to J.T. Tai & Co. in 1964, see Sotheby's New York, 22 March 2011, lot 134; and another from the Scheinman Collection, in a crackled green-glazed and of smaller size, see Christie's New York, 14 September 2018, lot 1297.
Saleroom notices
The results of the thermoluminescence testing are consistent with the suggested dating of this lot, Oxford Authentication sample No. P102m37, 23 May 2002.
英國牛津熱釋光檢測結果與本拍品的斷代一致，檢測報告序號 P102m37，2002 年 5 月 23 日。