A RARE LARGE JUN DEEP BOWL, NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY (960-1234)

A RARE LARGE JUN DEEP BOWL
NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY (960-1234)
The bowl is formed with deep rounded sides rising from the short foot ring to the slightly incurved rim, and is covered inside and out with a glaze of milky, sky-blue tone thinning to mushroom at the rim, except for the foot and a circular section on the bottom of the interior which are burnt orange in the firing.
7 ½ in. (19 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box and lacquered cover

Literature
Idemitsu Museum of Art, Sodai no Toji (The Ceramics of the Song Dynasty), Tokyo, 1979, no. 67.

Exhibited
Idemitsu Museum of Art, Sodai no Toji (The Ceramics of the Song Dynasty), Tokyo, October to November 1979.