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A RARE JUNYAO COMBINATION WATER POT AND VESSEL
- SONG/YUAN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY

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A RARE JUNYAO COMBINATION WATER POT AND VESSEL
SONG/YUAN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY
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    $40,000 - $60,000

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Sale 2196
fine chinese ceramics and works of art
15 September 2009
New York, Rockefeller Plaza

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Lot Description

A RARE JUNYAO COMBINATION WATER POT AND VESSEL
SONG/YUAN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY
Made in the shape of two conjoined pomegranate-form waterpots and a small cup with slightly everted rim, each water pot with a small hole on the side and the cup with two holes in the side that allow water to flow in from the pomegranates, covered overall with an opaque glaze of milky blue tone highlighted with splashes of purple that thins on edges to mushroom and falls in an irregular line to the shallow ring foot of each receptacle to expose the granular ware
5 in. (12.6 cm.) across, box

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Please note the provenance for this lot should read:
The Montague Meyer Family Collection of Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art; Christie's, London, 14 April 1980, lot 229.
Giselle Croes, Brussels, 1985.

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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION

Provenance

Montague Meyer Collection.
Giselle Cröes, Brussels, 1985.

Lot Notes

This very rare pomegranate-form combination water pot and vessel is similar to another, also with Jun glaze, included in the exhibition, Song Ceramics from the Kwan Collection, 22 July - 11 September 1994, Hong Kong Museum of Art, no. 46.

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