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PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR
A BLACK-GLAZED ‘RIBBED’ A RARE BLACK-GLAZED ‘OIL SPOT’
HANDLED JAR VASE
NORTHERN SONG / JIN DYNASTY JIN DYNASTY
of ovoid form rising to a short neck with lipped the pear-shaped body covered overall in a black
rim, the body with a series of evenly-spaced glaze suffused with iridescent ‘oil spots’, the
raised vertical lines of white slip, a pair of ridged glaze stopping at the foot revealing the pale
and tapering strap handles on the shoulder, buff body, the mouth rim dressed in white slip,
covered overall in a black glaze and thinning to the base inscribed with a wen character
cream at the raised ribs and stopping well short Height 9 in., 23 cm
of the foot, exposing the buff-colored body
Height 6¼ in., 15.8 cm PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 29th-30th November
PROVENANCE
2018, lot 383.
Private Collection.
‘Oil spot’ glazes were a specialty of the Linfen,
Huairen, and Jiexiu kilns of Shanxi province,
⊖ $ 20,000-30,000
which mostly used them on small bowls,
possibly inspired by the rare ‘oil spot’ tea bowls
北宋 / 金 黑釉棱線紋雙繫罐 of the Jian kilns of Fujian. ‘Oil spot’ vases are
very rare. The markings were probably formed
來源 by applying an iron-saturated slip on the body
私人收藏 under the glaze, a new technique developed to
cater to the subtle, refined tastes of the time.
With a lustrous black glaze suffused with an
intricate pattern of iridescent silver spots of
126 varying sizes, the pattern of oil-spot wares was
associated with starry nights or melting snow
as described in contemporaneous literature.
PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR
125 A vessel of this form was most likely used for
A BLACK-GLAZED ‘RIBBED’ serving wine.
HANDLED JAR Compare two larger vases of this type, but
NORTHERN SONG / JIN DYNASTY covered with finer rust-brown spots, one
preserved in the National Palace Museum,
the globular body rising from a short foot Taipei (accession no. 購-瓷-000158); and
to an upright neck with lipped rim, the body another in the Minneapolis Institute of Art,
with a series of evenly-spaced raised vertical Minneapolis (accession no. 99.69.2). Oil-spot
ribs of white slip, a pair of ridged handles on markings closely related to those on the current
the shoulder, covered overall in a black glaze vase are more often found on bowls, see, for
stopping well short of the foot revealing a example, a bowl now in the Palace Museum,
brown slip underneath, the interior and base Beijing (accession no. 2365-106080).
similarly dressed, the broad buff-colored knife-
pared footring exposing the body
Height 8½ in., 21.7 cm ⊖ $ 80,000-100,000
PROVENANCE 金 黑釉油滴玉壺春瓶
Robert H. Ellsworth, New York.
來源
LITERATURE
香港蘇富比2018年11月29至30日，
Hang Tian, Selection of Chinese Ceramics from
the Robert H. Ellsworth Collection, Beijing, 2015, 編號383
pl. 40.
⊖ $ 20,000-30,000
北宋 / 金 黑釉棱線紋雙繫罐

來源
安思遠，紐約

出版
杭天，《安思遠舊藏古陶瓷選粹》，
126
北京，2015年，圖版40

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