A 'Jun' bottle vase, Yuan dynasty | 元 鈞窰天藍釉瓶

The Benson collection, London.

Sydney L. Moss Ltd., 13th January, 1967 (£600). 

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Benson珍藏，倫敦

Sydney L. Moss Ltd.，倫敦，1967年1月13日 (600 英磅)

There are only a few Jun bottles found in important museum collections, all varying slightly in detail. A slightly shorter Northern Song dynasty example, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is published in Ceramics Gallery of the Palace Museum, vol. II: Song, Liao, Western Xia, Jin and Yuan Dynasties, Beijing, 2021, pl. 57 and cover.

Compare also the Northern Song Jun dynasty purple-splashed bottle, with a similarly flaring neck but a small lipped rim, from the The J. M. Hu (1911-1995), Zande Lou collection, published in Helen D. Ling and Edward T. Chow, Collection of Chinese Ceramics from the Pavilion of Ephemeral Attainment, vol. I, Hong Kong, 1950, no. 13 and sold at Christie's New York, 25th March 2022, lot 1039. Another, with a more elongated pear-shaped body, and also a flaring neck without lip, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 28th May 2014, lot 3222, from the collection of Sir Herbert Ingram (1875-1958).