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Title

Plate

0960-1279

Artist

Jun ware

China

  • Details

    Place where the work was made
    China
    Period
    Song dynasty 960 - 1279 → China
    Date
    0960-1279
    Media category
    Ceramic
    Materials used
    stoneware with crackled lavender glaze
    Dimensions
    3.8 x 18.0 cm
    Signature & date

    Not signed. Not dated.

    Credit
    Bequest of Kenneth Myer 1993
    Location
    Not on display
    Accession number
    582.1993
    Copyright

    Reproduction requests

    Artist information
    Jun ware

    Works in the collection

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  • About

    Jun wares, produced close to the Northern Song dynasty capital of Kaifeng, tend to have a grey stoneware body. The distinctive features are their simple and formal shapes and the rich lavender-blue colour derived from iron oxide in the glaze and reduction firing. Later in the Song dynasty and more particularly in the Yuan period, copper was added to the glaze to produce contrasting splashes of red.

  • Places

    Where the work was made

    China

  • Exhibition history

    Shown in 1 exhibition

  • Provenance

    Kenneth Myer AC, DSC, pre 1992, Australia, bequeathed to the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Dec 1993.

    Bluett & Sons Ltd, pre 1992, London/England, offered for sale.

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