Early Christmas pressie...?

With gently rounded sides rising to a slightly incurved rim, resting on a short straight foot, applied overall with a very glossy bubble-suffused glaze of a pale-blue tone, the interior with two splashes transmuting from a vivid lavender colour to a deeper purplish-blue, the exterior with two splashes of similar brilliance, the glaze draining from the mouthrim to a deep mushroom-brown tone and falling just short of the neatly cut footring to reveal the buff body burnt chocolate...

Doesn't sound like much, does it? However, the description (and picture) is of a Jun bubble bowl, currently in the Sotheby's Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art auction next week. And it's valued at a slightly eye-watering £250-300,000...

These bowls aim to create the perfect illusion of a soap bubble - hence the name. It's Northern Song (960- 1127AD) and I'd like it for christmas. Please.

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