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A FINE SMALL ‘OIL SPOT’-GLAZED TEA 宋至金 黑釉油滴盌
BOWL
SONG – JIN DYNASTY 來源：
J.J. Lally & Co.，紐約
well potted with steep sides rising from a short straight foot to
a rim bordered with a thin concave groove, unctuously covered 此類黑釉油滴盌，依 Robert D. Mowry 於《Hare’s Fur,
overall save for the foot with a lustrous black-brown glaze Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers. Chinese Brown-
attractively suffused with iridescent silvery-brown ‘oil spots’ and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400》中所見，多燒
of varying sizes, the glaze thinning to chocolate-brown at the 製於中國北方窰口，仿建窰茶盞（哈佛藝術博物館，劍
rim and neatly stopping short of the lower body and foot, the 橋，馬薩諸塞州，1996年，頁149-150）。此類「油滴」
unglazed section applied with a black dressing to conceal the 視覺效果，來自於在其兩層富鐵深棕釉下，通體連足加罩
pale grey body 一層黑色化妝土，妙仿建盞黑胎。
9.3 cm, 3⅝ in.

PROVENANCE 大維德爵士舊藏有一類例，現存倫敦大英博物館，錄於
J.J. Lally & Co., New York. 《Imperial Taste. Chinese Ceramics from the Percival
David Foundation》，大英博物館，倫敦，1989年，
HK$ 600,000-800,000 編號9。再比二例，藏劍橋哈佛大學藝術博物館，展於
US$ 77,500-104,000 《Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers》
，前述出處，編號43a及b。紐約蘇富比又曾售一相似
Bowls of this form and with this attractive ‘oil spot’ glaze 例，2015年9月15日，編號8。
are discussed by Robert D. Mowry in the catalogue to the
exhibition Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers.
Chinese Brown-and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Harvard
University Art Museums, Cambridge, 1996, pp. 149 and 150,
where it is suggested that they were made at kilns in Northern
China, in imitation of the popular Jian tea bowls made in Fujian
province. The author further notes that the ‘oil spot’ effect on
these bowls was achieved by adding a layer of black slip under
two layers of iron-rich dark brown glaze. The telling trait of
these bowls is the black slip that covers the entire foot and is
designed to emulate the dark bodies of Jian bowls.

A similar bowl from the Sir Percival David Collection, now in
the British Museum, London, was included in the exhibition
Imperial Taste. Chinese Ceramics from the Percival David
Foundation, British Museum, London, 1989, cat. no. 9.; two
in the Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, were
included in the exhibition Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and
Partridge Feathers, op. cit., cat. nos 43a and b; and another
bowl was sold in our New York rooms, 15th September 2015,
lot 8.

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