Chinese jun ware bottle vase. Elegantly potted with a globular body rising to a long flaring tubular neck, applied overall in a bubble-suffused purple and bluish lavender glaze transmuting to sky-blue at the base, the glaze stopping unevenly above the foot to reveal the buff-brown body, fitted with wood stand, 9.3"h. Provenance: property from a private estate, by descent. Formerly from the collection of private UK collector Donald Ratcliffe; purchased from John Sparks London. Accompanying this lot is a photocopy of original receipt (see item 3) dated April 7 , 1978