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PROPERTY FROM THE AOYAMA STUDIO COLLECTION 北宋 黑釉油滴茶盞
A RARE BLACK-GLAZED ‘OIL SPOT’ BOWL
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY 來源：
傳香港私人收藏
with steep sides resting on a short foot, covered overall with
a lustrous black glaze stopping neatly along the unglazed
footring to reveal the pale buff stoneware body, the glaze
further decorated with irregular silvery-russet speckles, the
rim mounted with a metal band
13.5 cm, 5⅜ in.
PROVENANCE
A Hong Kong private collection, by repute.

HK$ 500,000-800,000
US$ 64,500-104,000

Elegantly potted with wide flaring sides and a short foot, this
bowl is special for its attractive silver speckles that enhance
the rich dark-brown glaze. Its buff-coloured body visible at the
foot, suggests it was produced at one of the many Cizhou-
type kilns that produced black-glazed wares in the Northern
Song dynasty. Archaeological excavations at one such kiln
complex, the Dangyangyu kilns in Xiuwu, Henan province, have
unearthed black-glazed wares with similar features: from the
thick footring and the glazed interior of the foot, to the uneven
application of the speckles on the glaze. See for example a
reconstructed bowl of this form but larger size, and with russet
speckles, recovered at Xiuwu, illustrated in Series of China’s
Ancient Porcelain Kiln Sites. Dangyangyu Kiln of China, Beijing,
2011, pl. 59.
Bowls of this form covered in this dark-brown glaze and with
silver speckles are very rare and no other closely related
examples appear to have been published, although a bowl
with silver speckles is offered in this sale, lot 28, and a pair
of conical bowls with large silvery splashes, in the Arthur
M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, was
included in the Museum’s exhibition Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell
and Partridge Feathers. Chinese Brown- and Black-Glazes
Ceramics, 400-1400, Cambridge, 1995, cat. no. 45a and b.

two views

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