A RARE 'OILSPOT' BLACK-GLAZED CONICAL BOWL

SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)

细节

A RARE 'OILSPOT' BLACK-GLAZED CONICAL BOWL
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)
The rounded body covered on the interior with a lustrous black glaze suffused with a dense pattern of fine silver 'oil spots' and thinning to russet on the edge of the everted rim and continuing on the exterior atop a russet glaze ending in an irregular line above the neatly cut foot ring to expose the pale grey stoneware
4½ in. (11.3 cm.) diam., box

来源

J. J. Lally & Co., New York.

拍品专文

An 'oil spot' black-glazed bowl of very similar profile is illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Meiyintang Collection, vol.
3 (II), London, 2006, p. 498, no. 1503.

Conical bowls were intended primarily for the drinking of tea. The choice of tea during the Song and Jin periods was a white tea that was whisked to produce a white froth on top. Dark-glazed bowls such the present example became increasingly popular as they showed off the frothy white tea to great advantage.