A LARGE SKY-BLUE GLAZED 'JUN' BOWL, NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY

A LARGE SKY-BLUE GLAZED 'JUN' BOWL

NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY

北宋 鈞窰天藍釉大盌

the wide, rounded sides rising to a delicately incurved rim, covered overall in an evenly applied milky sky-blue glaze suffused with a fine crackles and swathes of lavender, and draining to a mushroom tone at the rim, the glaze pooling unevenly above and within the unglazed neatly pared footring

Diameter 8¾ in., 22.2 cm