JIN DYNASTY (1115-1234)

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A VERY RARE HUAIREN WHITE-RIMMED ‘OIL SPOT’ TEA BOWL
JIN DYNASTY (1115-1234)
The rounded bowl is covered inside and out with a blackish-brown glaze applied with dense silvery snowflake-shaped iron spots, the glaze stops in an irregular line on the exterior above the foot covered with purplish dressing. The brown glaze was scraped away at the mouth rim and applied with a milky white glaze.
4 5/8 in. (11.8 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box

Provenance

A Japanese private collection formed in the 1940s, by repute
Acquired in Japan in 1994

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Lot Essay

The Huairen kilns, based in Huairen county in Shanxi province, are renowned for their production of black-glazed wares. Their ‘oil spot’ tea bowls were particularly held in high regard by connoisseurs, and often compared with the ‘oil spot’ bowls produced by the Jian kilns in the south. The current bowl, with the black glaze scraped away around the mouth rim to make way for a layer of white glaze, is even more complex in production and very rarely seen among extant examples.

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