Chinese Old Antique Purple Splash Vase - Junyao in MOUNT WAVERLEY, Victoria for sale

Very probable Junyao pottery vase attributed to Jin/Yuan dynasty (1115-1368) but I am not an expert. This vase is delicately potted, covered overall in a light-blue glaze and attractively splashed purple colour in one area, suffused throughout with an attractive irregular russet crackles. Thick vase & very thick Jun ware flambé drip style glaze. The colours are beautiful: sky blue & purple splash.
Height: 16 cm. Diameter of the base: 9 cm. Weight: 528 g.
Condition: Excellent for such old age.
Vase details:
· Unglazed base rim.
· Flared mouth.
· Decorated with a rich bubble-suffused glaze
· adorned with a breathtaking purple splash.
A rare find indeed.
History: Jun ware (Chinese: ??; Wade?Giles: Chün) is a type of Chinese celadon. The use of straw ash in the glaze bestows its unique blue glaze suffused with white. The ware was created near Linru County in the province of Henan at the Jun kilns of Yuzhou City during the Northern Song dynasty (960?1126) to the Jin dynasty (1115?1234) and Yuan dynasty (1271?1368). The Chinese character for Jun became incorporated in local place names only as late as 1368. There is no mention of the kilns of Jun ware in written sources from the Song to Yuan dynasties. A black ware with spots was produced at the Xiaobai Valley in the Tang dynasty and can be considered the precursor of Jun ware. Jun celadon closely resembles Jun official celadon with its multiple layers of blue glaze. The kiln sites of both wares were geographically near one another as well. The Jun glaze included blue-gray, sky-blue, moon-white, red and purple, the most prized have crimson or purple splashes. Varying the temperature of the kilns changed colour tints, a technique known as yaobian. The foot of the later period ware is usually unglazed and brown; the rim of bowls can also be brown or greenish where the glaze is thinner. Song period examples display a careful finishing with glaze inside the foot. Naturally Song shapes are crisp and thinner than later Jin and Yuan examples. There is a great variety of shapes such as bowls, dishes and flowerpots. Narcissus bowls were often numbered and whose refinement suggests a connection with Jun official ware. Other extant examples of Jun ware display inscriptions on their bases that resemble other palace wares of the period. The numbers from one to ten are perhaps indications of size. The ware experiences a fall in quality into the Jin period. Later, in the Yuan dynasty, Jun ware production spread to other kiln sites in Henan, Hebei and Shanxi provinces, although Yuzhou City was the prime area for Jun ware production. Investigations of Jun ware kiln sites began in 1951 under Chen Wanli of the Palace Museum. A hundred kiln sites were subsequently discovered. A major report appeared in the journal Historical Relic in 1964.