Flat-rimmed junyao bowl with a beautiful lavender-blue glaze, Song period (960-1279) The stoneware is covered with a slightly bubbled lavender-blue glaze, forming a milky ring around the bottom and taking on a buff tone on the descent of the rim and on the edge. The glaze spreads in a thicker layer on the outside of the dish showing nice purple traces and forms drips and retractions on the foot edge. Five beads surround a recessed circle in the center of the base. Height : 3 cm ; diameter : 18,5 cm Streaks under the cover. Labels: - E. T. Chow collection, Sotheby's, n°272. - Mostra d'Arte Cinese, Venezia 1954, n°473. - Oriental Ceramic Society, 1952, n°39 -AIC, n°520. Provenance : - Mrs Alfred Clark. - E. T. Chow Collection. Exhibition : - O.C.S. Exhibition of Sung Dynasty Wares, Chun and Brown Glazes, 1952, Catalogue n°39. - Marco Polo Seventh Centenary Exhibition of Chinese Art, Venice, 1954, Catalogue n°473. Publication: - Basil Gray, Early Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, pl. 84. Similar: - Visser, Asiatic Art in Private Collection of Holland and Belgium, pl. 230, from the Schoenlitch Collection, sold at Sotheby's December 13, 1955, lot 78. - Seligman Collection Catalogue, vol. 2, pl. XXXIII, no. D91. - Hoyt Collection Catalogue, vol. II, n°54, Museum of Fine Art, Boston. - Berlin Exhibition of Chinese Art, 1929, catalog n°569, from the Steiner Collection, sold at Sotheby's on May 4, 1948, lot 100, then on February 17, 1959, lot 76. - The O.C.S. Exhibition of the Arts of the Sung Dynasty, 1960, catalog n°44, from the Wright Collection. - The Tokyo Exhibition of Chinese Arts of the Sung and Yuan Periods, 1961, Catalogue n°154. - The Osaka Exhibition of Sung and Yuan Art, 1978, Catalogue n°I-85. - The Idemitsu Museum of Arts Exhibition of Sung Ceramics, 1979, Catalogue n°69. - Two deeper blue dishes are in the National Palace Museum in Taiwan, illustrated in The Illustrated Catalogue of Sung Dynasty Porcelain, pls. 79 and 80. 宋-钧窑天蓝釉折沿盘 Private collection from Paris - lots from 78 to 127, 219 and 220