Thick lavender glaze with a pear shaped purple splash. Diameter 15,5 cm.
Crazing to glaze. Polished rim.
Ivar Traugotts samling, no 2228. Purchased at Lilla Bukowskis 2000, no 125. Lot 481, then with the information that it was purchased in Berlin, December 1929.
Compare pieces in the Sir Percival David Collection in the British Museum, illustrated and described in Illustrated Catalogue of Ru, Guan, Jun, Guangdong and Yixing Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, rev. ed., London, 1999.