Footnotes

金 鈞窯綠釉碗

Provenance:
Baron George de Menasce OBE (1890-1967)
Spink & Son Ltd., London
Emmanuel Christofides (1928-2020), Athens and London, acquired from the above in 1972

Published and Exhibited:
The Oriental Ceramic Society, Sung Dynasty Wares: Chün and Brown Glazes, London, 1952, no.109 (dated as Song dynasty)
Spink & Son Ltd., The George de Menasce Collection (II), London, 1972, no.251 (published and illustrated, dated as Song dynasty)
D.Priestley and M.Flacks, A Life in the Company of Song Ceramics, London, 2017, pp.22-23, no.5 (published and illustrated)

來源：
大英帝國勛章獲勛人Baron George de Menasce（1890-1967）
倫敦古董商Spink & Son Ltd.
Emmanuel Christofides (1928-2020)，雅典和倫敦，於1972年從上處獲得

展覽著錄：
東方陶瓷學會，《Sung Dynasty Wares: Chün and Brown Glazes》，倫敦，1952年，編號109（斷代為宋）
Spink & Son Ltd.，《The George de Menasce Collection (II)》，倫敦，1972年，編號251（著錄插圖，斷代為宋）
D.Priestley和M.Flacks，《A Life in the Company of Song Ceramics》，倫敦，2017年，第22-23頁，編號5 （著錄插圖）

Baron George de Menasce OBE (1890–1967) was of Hungarian Jewish descent, his family ennobled after the Congress of Vienna and prominent in Alexandria's banking and Khedival Court circles by the 19th century. Born in Liverpool, where his family had cotton interests, de Menasce lost his mother at six, inheriting her fortune, which fuelled his passion for collecting. An esteemed member of the Oriental Ceramic Society, he built an impressive collection of Chinese porcelain spanning the Song to Qing dynasties. See R.Davids & D.Jellinek, Provenance: Collectors, Dealers & Scholars in the Field of Chinese Ceramics in Britain and America, Oxford, 2011, p.150.

While Jun wares are most celebrated for their striking lavender and blue glazes, green-glazed examples also exist and are evidence of the kiln's experimentation with colour during the Song and Jin dynasties. These green Jun wares, though less common, display the same rich, glossy surface and subtle glaze pooling characteristic of their blue counterparts.

See a similar green Jun bowl, Song dynasty, illustrated by B.Gyllensvard, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, pl.89; which was later sold at Sotheby's London, 5 November 2008, lot 528. Another green Jun bowl, Jin dynasty, 12th/13th century, in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, is illustrated by R.Kerr, Song Dynasty Ceramics, London, 2004, p.15, fig.6. See also a green Jun bowl, Yuan dynasty, in the Philadelphia Museum of Art (acc.no.1944-20-119a,b). A green Jun dish, Jin dynasty, is illustrated in Song Ceramics from the Kwan Collection, Hong Kong, 1994, pp.134-135, no.49.

Compare with a similar green Jun bowl, Northern Song dynasty, which was sold at Christie's New York, 23 September 2022, lot 952.