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A RARE CIZHOU BLACK-GLAZED WHITE-RIMMED A VERY RARE CIZHOU ‘OIL-SPOT’ WHITE-RIMMED TEA BOWL
‘LOTUS-BUD’ JAR Northern Song Dynasty
Northern Song Dynasty With deep rounded sides supported on a short foot, covered under a
Of globular form, covered under a lustrous glaze of dark brown lustrous black glaze suffused with a dense pattern of silver ‘oil spots’,
stopping short of the dressed purple-brown colour foot, the rim slip- thinning to the exposed biscuit foot dressed in dark brown tone, fitted box.
decorated with a white band, velvet box. 13cm (5 1/8in) diam. (2).
11cm (4 3/8in) wide (2).
£10,000 - 15,000
£3,000 - 5,000 CNY89,000 - 130,000
CNY27,000 - 45,000
北宋 磁州窯油滴白沿盌
北宋 磁州窯黑釉白沿小罐
Provenance: the Sze Yuan Tang collection, acquired in Hong Kong
Provenance: the Sze Yuan Tang collection, acquired in Hong Kong circa 1980s-1990s
circa 1980s-1990s
來源： 思源堂收藏，於約1980至1990年代購自香港
來源： 思源堂收藏，於約1980至1990年代購自香港
Compare a similar black-glazed ‘oil-spot’ white rimmed bowl, 12th-
Compare a related brownish-black-glazed jar, Henan ware, Northern 13th century, in the Fujita Museum, Osaka, illustrated in Ceramic Art of
Song dynasty, of similar lotus-bud form but without a white-glazed the World, Vol.12: Sung Dynasty, Tokyo, 1977, p.256, pl.260. A related
band to the rim, illustrated by B.Gyllensvärd in Chinese Ceramics in the Cizhou white-rimmed black-glazed bowl, Northern Song dynasty, of
Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1965, p.94, no.266. similar form and size but decorated with russet streaks, was sold at
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 1-2 June 2017, lot 419.

The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test
no.P107j8 dated 4 April 2007, is consistent with the dating of this lot.

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