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Auckland
Date:
12-Dec-2019
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A song style Jun kiln vase, Jun kiln is in Yuzhou, Henan province. There are two reasons that Jun kiln was listed as one of five top kilns of song dynasty, which produced porcelain wares for the Imperial of the Northern Song dynasty. One is the unique glaze colour, and the other is the elegant shape, this purple-blue glazed flowerpot with earth-warm traces of crawling on the mud pattern is one of the best Jun wares in terms of shape and glaze colour. This flowerpot has a trumpet mouth, a full lip, a short neck, a round belly, and a high circle foot. There are five water seepage holes at the bottom. The body is thick and heavy, the flowerpot glazed in light blue on the interior and purple-blue exterior. The base is brushed thin yellowish-brown glaze. There is a burn mark on the bottom and engraved mark 'Six'. The product of Jun kiln engraved with the number of 'One' to 'Ten' in Yuzhou on the bottom, regarding the size, same as the Imperial Jun kiln porcelain collected in Palace Museum, height 16 cm, depth 19 cm
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Antiquities: Asian