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A SMALL ‘OIL-SPOT’-GLAZED TEA Ceramics I, Tokyo, 1988, pl. 610. Compare also
BOWL an ‘oil spot’ shallow bowl attributed to Shanxi in
the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The
SONG / JIN DYNASTY
Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace
well potted with steep sides rising from a short Museum. Porcelain of the Song Dynasty, Vol. 1,
straight foot to a rim bordered with a thin Hong Kong, 1996, pl. 204. A closely related bowl
concave groove, unctuously covered overall with sold in these rooms, 15th September 2015, lot 8;
a lustrous black-brown glaze attractively su< used another sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 4th April
with iridescent silvery-brown ‘oil spots’ of varying 2017, lot 26; and a slightly larger version sold
sizes, the glaze stopping irregularly above the in our Hong Kong rooms, 2nd-3rd June 2016,
foot, the unglazed section applied with a brown lot 603.
dressing to conceal the pale gray body
Diameter 3¼ in., 8.1 cm $ 30,000-50,000
A similar bowl from the collection of Hirota ҂ ږ ලཊذဈ७ʃ䋘
Matsushige is published in the Illustrated
Catalogues of Tokyo National Museum: Chinese

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