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A CIZHOU-TYPE 'OIL SPOT' TEA BOWL 金ǎ⌘州⒋系油滴釉盞
JIN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY
Ϝ源
The tea bowl is covered inside and out with a blackish-brown glaze suffused with 秦峰⁸珍藏
神戶
日本
silvery 'oil spots' that falls in a thick line on the exterior above the dark brown wash
covering the lower body.
4º in. (10.9 cm.) diam., silk pouch, Japanese wood box
$20,000-30,000

PROVENANCE:
Mineo Hata Collection, Kobe, Japan.

Cizhou-type ‘oil spot’ tea bowls from the Jin dynasty are very rare. ‘Oil spot’
glazes were invented at the Jian kilns in Fujian province in the Southern Song
th
dynasty, but black wares were made as early as the 10 century in the late Five
Dynasties-early Northern Song period. Cizhou examples of ‘oil spot’ tea bowls
show the influence of these Jian examples in both shape and glaze.

A nearly identical Jin dynasty Cizhou-type ‘oil spot’ tea bowl from the
Scheinman Collection is illustrated by R. Mowry in Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and
Partridge Feathers, Cambridge, 1996, pp. 157-58, no. 50. See, also, an example
dated to the Yuan dynasty, excavated from Tuchengzi site, Wulanchabu city,
and currently in the Inner Mongolia Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology,
illustrated in Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji (Complete Collection of Ceramic Art
Unearthed in China), vol. 4, no. 193, which has slightly larger oil spots than the
present bowl.

(with box)

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