ID 963347
Lot 3018 | AN EXTREMELY RARE ‘NUMBERED THREE’ JUN TRIPOD BULB BOWL
Estimate value
HKD 4 000 000 – 6 000 000
YUAN-MING DYNASTY, 14TH-15TH CENTURY
The sturdily potted bowl has a band of twenty ‘nail-head’ bosses applied between bow-string borders, and a further seventeen bosses above the three ruyi-form feet. The bowl is covered with a thick glaze, the interior of pale blue and lavender tone and the exterior of mottled magenta that thins to brownish-olive on the raised areas. The base has a thin olive glaze and a ring of spur marks, and is incised with the character san (three).
9 in. (22.8 cm.) diam., double Japanese wood boxes
Provenance
Matsushige Hiroda (1897-1973)
Manno Art Museum, Osaka
An important private collection, acquired circa 2000
Literature
Selected Masterpieces of the Manno Collection, Osaka, 1988, no. 99
| Applied technique: | Pottery |
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| Medium: | Ceramic |
| Historical era: | Yuan dynasty |
| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Asia |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Applied technique: | Pottery |
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| Medium: | Ceramic |
| Historical era: | Yuan dynasty |
| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Asia |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Address of auction |
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