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165 Oil-spot tea bowls were initially produced in the Jian kilns by
A fine Northern black-glazed ‘oil spot’ tea bowl decreasing the temperature during firing while the glazes were still
Northern Song Dynasty boiling. This had the effect of fixing iron-rich spots before they ran
Potted with steep rising rounded sides below a slightly indented rim, down as streaks. As the spots crystallised as magnetite, the spots
covered overall in a rich lustrous black glaze densely suffused with took on a silvery sheen. This effect was copied in the North of China in
unusually bright and attractive russet-coloured silvery ‘oil spots’, the the Song and Jin periods by applying iron-rich slip beneath standard
unglazed foot exposing the dark brown stoneware. black glazes.
12.5cm diam.
Compare with a Jianyao ‘oil-spot’ bowl sold at Sotheby’s London, 12
HK$400,000 - 600,000 June 2003, lot 119.
US$52,000 - 77,000
The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test
北宋 黑釉油滴釉盌 no.P199r37 is consistent with the dating of this lot.

微敝口，大孤壁，淺圈足。通體施黑釉，明亮華光，及至盌的中底
部，圈足及盌底部份露胎。釉面佈滿銀棕色油滴狀結晶，大小不一散
置在內外壁，在黑底襯托下，仿如繁星，眩目耀眼。

此拍品經牛津鑒定公司熱釋光年法測試（測試編號P199r37），證實
與本圖錄之定代符合。

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