AN EXTREMELY RARE 'NUMBER TEN' JUN RECTANGULAR JARDINIÈRE, YUAN-EARLY MING DYNASTY, 14TH-15TH CENTURY

AN EXTREMELY RARE 'NUMBER TEN' JUN RECTANGULAR JARDINIÈRE
YUAN-EARLY MING DYNASTY, 14TH-15TH CENTURY
The jardinière is thickly potted with shallow sides rising to a flat, everted rim with a raised outer edge, and is supported on four cabriole legs joined by bracket-shaped aprons. The vessel is covered overall with a pale, milky blue glaze which thins to mushroom at the edges. The base is applied with a thin brownish glaze and incised with the character shi (ten).
6 ¾ in. (17.2 cm.) long, Japanese wood box

Provenance
George Eumorfopoulos Collection (according to label).
Burchard Galleries, Berlin, June 1927.
Christie's Amsterdam, 31 October 2006, lot 482.

Literature
Christie's, The Classic Age of Chinese Ceramics: An Exhibition of Song Treasures from the Linyushanren Collection, Hong Kong, 2012, pp. 74-75, no. 22.

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.