A LARGE HENAN 'OIL SPOT'-GLAZED BOWL

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A LARGE HENAN 'OIL SPOT'-GLAZED BOWL
NORTHERN SONG/JIN DYNASTY

Of flaring, conical form with incurved rim, the interior finely splashed in pale reddish-brown with an even concentration of small spots reserved on a bluish-black ground, continuing onto the exterior and stopping short of the grainy buff body
7 7/8in. (20cm.) diam., box

Lot Essay

A similar bowl was included in the International Exhibition of Chinese Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1935-36, Catalogue, no. 1159; and another is illustrated by Martin Feddersen, Chinesisches Kunstgewerbe, Berlin, 1939, p. 55, no. 35