A black-glazed 'oil spot' tea bowl, Jin dynasty | 金　黑釉油滴茶盞

Kochukyo Co., Ltd, Tokyo.

Tea bowls of Cizhou-type ware from the Jin dynasty featuring an 'oil-spot' glaze as refined as the present example—its interior decorated with ten distinct silvery roundels—are exceedingly rare. Although the technique of oil-spot glazing originated at the Jian kilns in Fujian during the Southern Song period, the production of black-glazed wares had already begun at the turn of the 10th century, during the transitional era between the Five Dynasties and the Northern Song. The form and lustrous glaze of this bowl recall the heritage of the Jian kilns, making it a particularly fine example of the artistic dialogue between northern and southern ceramic traditions.

Compare a related bowl with five roundels on the interior, sold in our New York rooms, 15th March 2017, lot 623; and another Cizhou-type oil-spot bowl of the Jin dynasty, formerly in the collection of Xie Manman, illustrated in Robert Mowry, Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell and Partridge Feathers, Cambridge, 1996, pl. 50. Compare also a bowl excavated from the Tuchengzi site in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, in the Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, illustrated in Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji (Complete Collection of Chinese Excavated Ceramics), vol. 4, Beijing, 2008, pl. 193; its oil-spot markings are slightly larger than those of the present example.

來源

壺中居，東京

金代磁州窰系油滴茶盞如本件內裡且飾十朵油花者，寥若晨星。油滴釉技雖濫觞於南宋福建建窰，然黑釉器之燒造早肇始於十世紀末之五代北宋交替時期。本品形制釉色皆可見建窰遺風，尤顯南北窰業技藝交融之珍例。

可比較一件相關油滴盌，內裡飾五朵油花，2017年3月15日售於紐約蘇富比，編號623；以及謝曼曼舊藏一件金代磁州窰系油滴盞，載於R. Mowry，《兔毫、玳瑁與鷓鴣斑》，劍橋，1996年，圖版50；另可參照元代出土例，烏蘭察布市土城子遺址出土，現藏內蒙古自治區文物考古研究所，其油滴斑紋較本品略顯碩大，著錄於《中國出土瓷器全集》，卷4，北京，2008年，圖版193。