Size: 12 cm.(D)
A buff stoneware body decorated with a thick lavender glaze with a slight purple hue where the glaze thickens, the glaze thinning towards the rim, which is unglazed, and with slight pitting on the lower exterior due to imperfection in the kiln firing, the bowl, however, with a pleasing depth of tone and lustre.
Though the majority of Jun glaze wares were produced at the Linru kilns near Luoyang, there were other kilns at Yuxian in Henan. The coarse stoneware body and the thickness of the applied iron-oxide glaze, producing an opalescent finish, is typical of Jun wares.
PROVENANCE:
From a Private Collection in UK.
A similar bowl can be seen in the T.T. Tsui Gallery in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Museum number FE.167-1974. Another was exhibited in the Hong Kong Museum of Art 1994 Kwan Collection Exhibition.