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55. A Cizhou Black-Glazed Conical Tea Bowl W ith
Rust-Brown ‘Oil Spots’
Song Dynasty (A.D. 960–1279)
with well-potted flat flaring sides rising from a small foot to a gently rounded rim with everted lip,
the lustrous black glaze liberally applied inside and out, with tiny rust-brown spots enlivening the
surface on the interior, continuing over the rim and forming a concentrated band below the lip rim
where the glaze thins to chocolate-brown, the spots fading to paler tones and the glaze showing an
oily bluish tint lower on the underside, the edge of the neatly pared ring foot unglazed revealing the
pale gray stoneware of typical Cizhou type, the shallow recessed base covered with black glaze.
Diameter 5 ⁄4 inches (13.3 cm)
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A small wan tea bowl of rounded form with a similar black glaze covered with an ‘oil-spot’ pattern of numerous rust-brown
spots is illustrated by Mowry, Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown- and Black-Glazed Ceramics,
400–1400, Cambridge, 1996, pp. 157–158, no. 50, from the Scheinman Collection, where the author describes the technique
used to create this special glaze effect.
宋 磁州黑釉鐵銹斑油滴盞 徑 13.3 厘米