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PROPERTY FROM THE XINYANGTANG COLLECTION 北宋 黑釉褐斑梅瓶
A RUSSET-SPLASHED BLACK-GLAZED VASE
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY 來源：
香港蘇富比2001年5月1日，編號503
of ovoid form, the rounded shoulders narrowing to a short
neck and everted rim, covered overall in a lustrous black glaze
liberally splashed with russet streaks
28.7 cm, 11¼ in.
PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 1st May 2001, lot 503.

HK$ 150,000-200,000
US$ 19,200-25,600
The russet-coloured spontaneous splashes applied over the
lustrous black glaze must have evolved naturally from the
experimental nature of competing Song dynasty kilns which
produced black and brown-glazed wares for the thriving
domestic and export tea ware market. On the present vase, the
applied streaks of matte iron-red glaze contrast dramatically
with the brilliant dark ground beneath. As no two ‘splashes’
can be the same, the random, serendipitous character of this
decorative technique must have been a large part of its appeal
to the Song literati.
The use of this glaze technique was also employed on vases of
meiping form. See a truncated meiping decorated with russet
splashes, illustrated in Bo Gyllensvärd, Oriental Ceramics. The
World’s Great Collections, Tokyo, 1982, vol. 8, pl. 159 and sold
in our New York rooms, 23rd March 2011, lot 517.

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