A SMALL CIZHOU-TYPE 'OIL-SPOT' BOWL

JIN DYNASTY, 12TH CENTURY

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A SMALL CIZHOU-TYPE 'OIL-SPOT' BOWL
JIN DYNASTY, 12TH CENTURY
The bowl has deep, rounded sides rising to an indented rim, and is covered with a lustrous, blackish-brown glaze densely patterned on the interior with silvery 'oil spots', which on the exterior falls short of the small foot exposing the fine grey ware.
3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Dr. Peter M. Greiner (1940-2013) Collection.

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Lot Essay

This bowl is a Jin imitation of a Shanxi ceramic ware, likely made in Shandong province, in the 12th-13th centuries, based on the circular foot ring, medium-brown underglaze, and iron-bearing slip. The iron-bearing slip used on wares made in Shanxi form distinct clusters not seen in the glaze of the present bowl. Two similar Cizhou-type bowls, also made in Shandong province, are illustrated by Robert D. Mowry in Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown-and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Cambridge, 1996, pp. 153-55, nos. 46-47.

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