JIN DYNASTY (1115-1234)

The finely potted bowl with rounded sides is covered to the interior with a lustrous russet and black glaze decorated with bold splashes. Compare a black-glazed tea bowl decorated with russet splashes, housed in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, collection number: guci 016992; and a conical bowl with similar splashes, excavated from the Dangyangyu kiln site in Henan province, illustrated in Dangyangyu Kiln of China, Beijing, 2011, no.55.