A Jun glazed dish with a purple splash in the shape of a crescent moon, Jin/Yuandynasty.
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The shallow dish with gently curved cavetto rising to an everted rim, covered overall in a thick light-blue glaze with a single purple splash shaped as a crescent moon on the cavetto and interior, the glaze thinning to a translucent mushroom-brown at the edges, the recessed base studded with spur marks and surrounded by a short glazed circular foot. Diameter 16.5 cm.
Restored in kintsugi style.
Provenance
Label from Bluett & Son, London. 3499. Hulmark purchased the dish from Bluett & Son June 13th 1925.
Bluett purchased the dish from the dealer Laurent Heliot, 34 rue de Liege, Paris, June 15th 1922. It is listed in Bluetts stock as 'Chun saucer with purple splash. Repaired with metal'.
Bukowskis wishes to thank Mr Dominik Jellinek for this information.
The dish has a further label marked B277.
From the Collection of Dr Emil Hultmark (1872-1943), Stockholm, thence by descent within the family until now.
Dr Emil Hultmark was an art historian, collector, donor and patron of the arts. He combined important work as an art historian not only with the creation of one of the largest and most remarkable private art collections in Sweden, but also with the construction of an archive of Swedish artists and art craftsmen unparalleled in its extent, together with a library containing almost all that has been written about Swedish art.
Emil Hultmark was one of the co-founders of the ‘Kinaklubben’ (China Club) in Stockholm in the 1920's with Carl Kempe (1884-1967) and the Crown Prince Gustav Adolf. He is a well known collector and his beautiful home and summer house is well documented in the magazine 'Svenska Hem i ord och bild' in the 1930's, which provide us with a fascinating window into this golden age of European collecting.
Exhibitions
Exhibited in Stockholm, Sveriges Allmänna Konstförening, Emil Hultmarks Samling (Collection), 1942, lot no 360.
Compare dishes of this type sold at;
Christies, lot 723, 15 September 2016, Live auction 13915. The Classic Age of Chinese Ceramics: The Linyushanren Collection, Part II.
Christies, lot 2276, 28 November 2012, Live auction 2963. Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art.
Sothebys, lot 195. Important Chinese Art, 21 September 2021, New York.