Measurements: Width: 17 cm, Height: 8.3 cm

Chinese Song Jun Ware Porcelain Bowl. The porcelain potted in a shallow, slight deep, flaring rim with close mouth rim, raised on ring foot base. Jun ware is a type of Chinese pottery, one of the Five Great Kilns of Song ceramics. Some of the wares were for a popular market, especially the bowl vessel, have been made for the imperial court. The most striking and distinctive Jun wares use blue to purple glaze colors, sometimes suffused with white, made with straw ash in the glaze. They often show splashes of purple on blue, sometimes appearing as though random, though they are usually planned. A different group are streaked purple on blue, the Chinese describing the streaks as worm-tracks. This is a high-prestige stoneware which was greatly admired and often imitated in later periods. But colors range from a light greenish-brown through green to blue and purple. The shapes are mostly simple, except for the official wares, and other decoration is normally limited to the glaze effects.The underside unglazed, revealed the pale-creme ground revealed and dark greyish brown spotted firing marks and edge-cut foot rim.

Over all in EXCELLENT Condition. Natural Porcelain imperfection, minor scratches. NO Damage Vissible, NO Crack, NO Hairlines, NO Chips.
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