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PROPERTY FROM THE AOYAMA STUDIO COLLECTION 北宋 黑釉鐵鏽飛斑天目盞
A RUSSET-SPLASHED BLACK-GLAZED
‘PARTRIDGE FEATHER’ BOWL 來源：
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY 亞洲私人收藏
with a deep and subtly rounded body rising from a short foot
to a gently everted rim, the interior covered with a glossy black
glaze liberally splashed with short russet streaks resembling
the mottled markings of a partridge, the exterior covered in a
thick and lustrous persimmon glaze stopping neatly above the
footring to reveal the pale buff stoneware body
12.4 cm, 4⅞ in.
PROVENANCE
An Asian private collection.
HK$ 400,000-600,000
US$ 52,000-77,500

Notable for its thickly applied and particularly lustrous black
glaze, this tea bowl belongs to the same group of russet-
splashed bowls as lot 11. However, while the splashes on lot
11 appear as small irregular speckles, here they have pulled
downward with gravity, becoming large vertical brown streaks.
The exterior of both bowls are entirely covered in a russet-
brown glaze, a common practice at Cizhou kilns in the 11th and
early 12th century.
Teabowls similarly decorated with asymmetrical vertical
streaks include three reconstructed examples recovered
from the Guantai kiln site in Ci county, Hebei province, and
illustrated in The Cizhou Kiln Site at Guantai, Beijing, 1997, pl.
65, fig. 1; a bowl sold in our London rooms, 20th June 2001, lot
64; and another sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 1st June 2016,
lot 3124.

Two views

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