A RARE AND EXCEPTIONAL 'NUMBER THREE' JUN JARDINIÈRE YUAN-MING DYNASTY, 14TH-15TH CENTURY The body is molded with six lobes below the correspondingly lobed everted rim, and the exterior is covered with a lavender-blue glaze shading to brilliant purple color. The interior and the rim are covered with a pale milky-blue glaze thinning to mushroom, and there are five drainage holes piercing the base, which is dressed in a thin brown glaze on the underside and incised with the number san (three). 10 ¾ in. (27.3 cm.,) diam., double Japanese wood box Provenance Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 5 November 1996, lot 721. The Dexingshuwu Collection. The Dexingshuwu Collection; Sotheby’s New York, 18 March 2008, lot 91. Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 8 April 2013, lot 3046.
A RARE AND EXCEPTIONAL 'NUMBER THREE' JUN JARDINIÈRE YUAN-MING DYNASTY, 14TH-15TH CENTURY The body is molded with six lobes below the correspondingly lobed everted rim, and the exterior is covered with a lavender-blue glaze shading to brilliant purple color. The interior and the rim are covered with a pale milky-blue glaze thinning to mushroom, and there are five drainage holes piercing the base, which is dressed in a thin brown glaze on the underside and incised with the number san (three). 10 ¾ in. (27.3 cm.,) diam., double Japanese wood box Provenance Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 5 November 1996, lot 721. The Dexingshuwu Collection. The Dexingshuwu Collection; Sotheby’s New York, 18 March 2008, lot 91. Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 8 April 2013, lot 3046.
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