Lot Essay
Compare a similar, slightly larger bowl in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated by Suzanne G. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, 1989, p. 95, no. 90
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A LARGE HENAN OIL-SPOT GLAZED BOWL
NORTHERN SONG/JIN DYNASTY
The interior finely splashed in reddish-brown with varying concentrations of spots, the most dense areas forming five roundels of irregular outline, all on a lustrous black ground below a line of iron-rust at the upcurved rim and repeated on the exterior where it pools in a line atop a thin iron-rust underglaze which falls short of the knife-cut foot to expose the buff ware, burst glaze bubble at rim --7¼in. (18.5cm.) diam.
NORTHERN SONG/JIN DYNASTY
The interior finely splashed in reddish-brown with varying concentrations of spots, the most dense areas forming five roundels of irregular outline, all on a lustrous black ground below a line of iron-rust at the upcurved rim and repeated on the exterior where it pools in a line atop a thin iron-rust underglaze which falls short of the knife-cut foot to expose the buff ware, burst glaze bubble at rim --7¼in. (18.5cm.) diam.