The purpose of this publication is to catalogue the collection of Jun shards of Parma’s Museum of Chinese Art. The Authors have participated to this effort with their own resources.

This initiative was made possible by the contribution of Roberta Enseki Hancock (France) who provided the graphics, editing, and the software; Prof. Sabrina Rastelli (Italy), an eminent scholar in Chinese ceramics, for the text, and the personal interest of Giovanni Repetti, curator of the research and the restoration of the Jun Ware.

Writes Giovanni Repetti in the introduction: “Jun ware has been fascinating for centuries collectors and connoisseurs, both in the East and the West, and recently its dating has become the focus of a heated debate among scholars from all over the world. The wide admiration for Jun ceramics is easily justified by its beauty, which lies in the striking visual qualities of the glaze: bluish in color, with hues varying from green to white, to sky blue and even lavender, and opalescent.”

In all, the collection comprised 45 shards, embedded in 7 badly worm-eaten wood frames which needed urgent attention.  The restoration work represented an excellent opportunity to make a photographic documentation of those fragments since they had to be removed from the frames and then, publish the documentation to add to the Museum’s series of catalogues and pamphlets.

In this CD book, firstly we see the various shards of Jun Ware, then the technology, the literary and Western history, the archeological history and a rich bibliography, with beautiful photographs of each object. The CD (which works in various modern browsers) gives various formats to view the themes suggested, both as a book and a Slideshow.

Edition CSAM, Brescia, 2001 - Centro Saveriano Animazione Missionaria, Brescia
Text in English and Italian. Price €15.