NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY (AD 960-1234)

A similar Jun jar was included in the Exhibition of Archaeological Treasures Excavated in the People's Republic of China, Tokyo, 1973, no. 233. Other published examples include: J. Ayers, Baur Collection, vol. I, Geneva, no. A 30; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, the World's Great Collections, Tokyo, 1980, vol. 10, no. 167; two illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. I, London, 1994, p. 223, nos. 392 and 393; one in Fire and Earth: Early Chinese Ceramics (3500 B.C. - 1400 A.D.) in the Museum of East Asian Art, Cologne, 2008, pp. 148-49, no. 106; and one from the collection of Robert Chang, sold at Christie's New York, 21 March 2002, lot 150. See, also, the Jun jar of similar broad proportions, from the collection of the Springfield Museums, Springfield, Massachusetts, sold at Christie’s New York, 21-22 March 2013, lot 1173.

The result of Oxford thermoluminescence test no.P124h26 is consistent with the dating of this lot.