RARE GREEN 'JUN' BOWL
NORTHERN SONG TO JIN DYNASTY
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23.2cm diameter
Private Scottish collection, Scottish Borders. The owner had an enduring friendship with Dr Kenneth Lawley (1937-2023), a lifelong Asian art collector and a significant part of whose collection was sold in this saleroom, 3 November 2023, lot 1-95. Dr Lawley was close to the collection offered in this sale, indeed some of the items came directly from him. He would share his research, his catalogue, and his admiration of these items with the owner, as a natural consequence of their friendship. Gifted by Dr Kenneth Lawley, 28 Sep 2002, with an original letter, who acquired from Sotheby’s, lot 15, 14 Feb 1966, via Bluett & Sons Ltd., with an original receipt. Exhibited: Early Oriental Ceramics, MacRobert Centre, University of Stirling, 5-25 July 1973, no. 23. Illustrated in the exhibition photograph (circled).
Compare to a rare large green ‘Jun’ bowl, Song-Jin dynasty, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 30 Nov 2023, lot 2868; Another rare Junyao green bowl, Song/Yuan Dynasty, sold at Bonhams London, 5 November 2020, lot 19; Also see a related rare large green 'Jun' bowl, Northern Song / Jin dynasty, in more bulbous form, was in the collection of Dr Kenneth Lawley, sold at Sotheby's 1 November 2023, lot 49. See a comparable green-glazed bowl, Song / Jin dynasty, illustrated in Feng Xiaoqi Eds., 2013, The Specimens of Ancient Chinese Kilns in the Collection of the Palace Museum, Henan Volumn II, Beijing: The Forbidden City Publishing House, pt. 652, pg. 625.