A LARGE JUN DISH, NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (960-1127)

A LARGE JUN DISH
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (960-1127)
The shallow dish is well potted with rounded sides rising to the slightly inverted rim encircled on the exterior by a finger-molded band. The dish is covered overall with a pale lavender-blue glaze which thins to mushroom at the rim, and continues onto the countersunk base which has five spur marks.
11 ½ in. (29.1 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box

Provenance
Eskenazi, London.

Literature
Christie's, The Classic Age of Chinese Ceramics: An Exhibition of Song Treasures from the Linyushanren Collection, Hong Kong, 2012, pp. 64-65, no. 16.
Rosemary Scott, ‘Chinese Classic Wares from a Japanese Collection: Song Ceramics from the Linyushanren Collection’, Arts of Asia, March-April 2014, pp. 97-108, fig. 18.

Exhibited
Christie's, The Classic Age of Chinese Ceramics: An Exhibition of Song Treasures from the Linyushanren Collection, Hong Kong, 22 to 27 November 2012; New York, 15 to 20 March 2013; London, 10 to 14 May 2013.