A JUNYAO JAR AND A COVER AND A DISH
Jin/Yuan Dynasty
The jar of compressed flower bud form, the thick flecked milky blue glaze stopping at the lower body; the shallow dish terminating in a raised everted rim, covered in an even sky blue glaze.
The dish 15.5cm (6 1/8in) diam. (3).
Footnotes:
金/元 鈞窰蓋罐及盤

Provenance:
The jar:
Compagnie de la Chine, Paris, acquired 30 May 1923 for £5
Bluett & Sons Ltd, London (label), acquired 13 June 1923 for £7
J. Warrack collection
Garfrae collection (hand-written annotation)

For a related jar and cover see J. Ayres, The Seligman Collection of Oriental Art: Chinese and Korean Pottery and Porcelain, volume 2, 1964, pl. D.94. Another is illustrated in S. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, 1989, p. 87, pl. no. 79, and a further example in Porcelain of the Song Dynasty, Palace Museum, 1996, p. 242, no. 218.

General old wear and firing imperfections.

The jar: two shallow rim chips - 1cm and 0.2cm. The smaller chip with a crack running off, down the body. Some chipping to the foot. Glaze crazing to the interior. The cover likely related. 0.2cm rim nibble.

The dish: Some small rim chips and nibbles. Couple of chips to the footrim. Burst firing bubble to the rim and firing pit to the centre.