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A RARE JIAN ‘OIL SPOT’
BLACK-GLAZED TEA BOWL
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)
The Jian bowl is potted with deep sides rising
to an indented rim, covered inside and out
with a lustrous dark brown glaze suffused with
russet ‘oil spots'. The glaze ends irregularly
around the foot exposing the stoneware body.
5 in. (12.7 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box

HK$200,000-300,000
US$26,000-39,000

PROVENANCE
A Japanese private collection, acquired in the
1990s
The current bowl has a very attractive black
glaze with silver and brown streaks. The
formation of patterns on Jian ware bowls
depends on the specific oxides of iron that
form in firing and to the type of crystals
that develop as the glaze cools. The current
bowl's appearance is somewhere between
'silver hare's fur' and 'oil spots', and is a rare
occurrence. Compare to an 'oil spot' example
in the Seikado Bunko Museum, Tokyo,
illustrated in Seika Toji Zenshu - Song, Vol.
12, 1997, Tokyo, pl. 251-2, p. 254. Compare
also to the example with an indented mouth
rim illustrated in ibid, pls. 94-5, pp. 100-101. A
'silver hare's fur' example in the Metropolitan
Museum of Art is illustrated by Robert
D. Mowry in Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and
Partridge Feathers, Harvard University Art
Museums, Cambridge, 1995, no. 83, p. 220.

南宋 建窯黑釉油滴銀斑紋盌
來源
日本私人珍藏，入藏於1990年代
此盌外形工整， 釉色烏黑， 斑紋微汎銀光。銀斑
茶盌在建窯天目茶器中甚為少見。

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