The bowl is covered with a moon-white glaze of milky lavender-blue, draining to a mushroom colour at the rim. It's with a fitted box.
One of the 'five famous wares of the Song dynasty', 'Jun' ware was much admired for the beauty of its glaze, which ranged from moon-white to sky-blue, and often contrasted against a vivid purple splash. Deriving its name from the kiln near Juntai terrace within the north gate of the Yuzhou prefecture in Henan province, 'Jun' wares were produced from the end of the Northern Song period to the Ming dynasty.
See a 'moon-white'-glazed 'Jun' bowl of closely related colour, in the Qing court collection, illustrated in Selection of Jun Ware: the Palace Museum's Collection and Archaeological Excavation, Beijing, 2013, cat. no. 9. See another 'Jun' bowl of closely related form and size, but with a sky-blue glaze, discovered in 1963 at Huangzhuang, Henan province and now in the Henan Provincial Museum, published in Zhongguo taoci quanji [Complete series on Chinese Ceramics], Shanghai, 1999-2000, vol. 7, pl. 186.
See another Jun bowl with moon-white glaze, sold at the auction, see Sotheby's New York, 15/9/2015, lot 5; also compare to a much smaller one (8.8cm diameter), see Sotheby's Hong Kong, 29/4/2022, lot 3607.
16.8cm diameter
Estimate $3,000 - $5,000
Overall in good condition.
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A private collection, Osaka.
Important Chinese & Asian Art
AUCTION
Sale: LJ8825
11:00am - 25 October 2026
Hawthorn
VIEWING
Thurs 22 - Sat 24 October, 11am - 5pm
2 Oxley Rd, Hawthorn VIC
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