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PROPERTY FROM THE AOYAMA STUDIO COLLECTION This exquisite bowl is striking for its thick and lustrous dark
brown glaze which is enlivened by unevenly scattered small
A RARE HENAN BLACK-GLAZED ‘OIL SPOT’ silver speckles. These attractive speckles are seldom found on
BOWL bowls of this type, and thus make this piece very special and
NORTHERN SONG – JIN DYNASTY rare. Carefully applied with a finger or small brush, they were
made with an iron-saturated slip, which crystallised in the kiln
well potted with steep sides rising from a short foot to a gently
flared rim, covered overall save for the footring with a rich and and turned silvery during the cooling phase. This technique
glossy dark brown glaze infused with a tinge of moss-green, was most likely inspired by the yuteki (‘oil-spot’) tea bowls
liberally splashed with silvery-brown and black mottles, the made at the Jianyang kilns in Fujian province, whose products
unglazed footring revealing the pale buff body, Japanese wood peaked in popularity in the Northern Song period.
box Bowls of this form and with silver speckles are very rare
12.6 cm, 5 in. and no other closely related example appears to have been
published, although a black-glazed bowl of conical form with
PROVENANCE silvery speckles is offered in this sale, lot 97. Compare also a
Suichikudo, Tokyo. pair of bowls of conical form with lipped rims, decorated with
large silvery mottles in the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard
HK$ 500,000-800,000 University Art Museums, Cambridge, included in the Museum’s
US$ 64,500-104,000 exhibition Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell and Partridge Feathers.
Chinese Brown- and Black-Glazes Ceramics, 400-1400,
Cambridge, cat. no. 45a and b.
北宋至金 河南黑釉油滴天目茶盞
來源：
翠竹堂，東京

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