A large Chinese junyao deep bowl Song dynasty or later, the ovoid body raised on a short slightly flaring foot, decorated with a sky-blue glaze deepening to lavender at the rim, the well unglazed, 18.3cm dia.

Cf. M Tregear, Song Ceramics, p.118, no.142, where a comparable bowl dated to the Northern Song dynasty from the Percival David Foundation is illustrated. And also, Eskenazi, Junyao, November 2013 exhibition, pp.47-61 for various junyao glazed wares.

Together with an Oxford Authentication Thermoluminescence Analysis Report, sample no. P112n80, which states, 'it is not possible to issue a result for this piece as the clay is too insensitive for TL measurements and cannot be dated'.