Lot 221
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[PRIVATE TAIWANESE COLLECTION] CHINESE CIZHOU-TYPE BLACK-GLAZED 'OIL SPOT' CUP
YUAN DYNASTY
Auction: 07 November 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
元 磁州窯系黑釉油滴杯
thickly potted, the rounded body supported on a short foot and terminated to slightly narrower straight sides, covered inside and out with a blackish-brown glaze suffused with silvery 'oil spots' falls in a thick line above the foot, the foot ring unglazed revealing the buff stoneware body
Dimensions
8.5cm wide x 5.5cm high
Provenance
Private Taiwanese collection
Exhibited: The National Museum of History, Taipei, 2008
Published: Cheng Qiren, 玉潤玄光 : 宋元名窯瓷器展 (Splendor of China- Song and Yuan Porcelain), The National Museum of History, Taipei, 2008, catalogue no. 54, exhibition no. 138, pp. 138-9
臺灣私人收藏
展覽：「玉潤玄光：宋元名窯瓷器展」，國立歷史博物館，臺北，2008。
著錄：成耆仁著：《玉潤玄光：宋元名窯瓷器展》，臺北：國立歷史博物館，2008，圖版54，展覽編號138，頁138-9。
Footnote
Cizhou-type ‘oil spot’ wares are very rare. ‘Oil spot’ glazes were invented at the Jian kilns in Fujian province in the Southern Song dynasty, but black wares were made as early as the 10th century in the late Five Dynasties-early Northern Song period. Cizhou examples of ‘oil spot’ wares show the influence of these Jian examples in both shape and glaze. Two Cizhou-type ‘oil spot’ tea bowls dated to the Jin dynasty: one from the Scheinman Collection is illustrated by R. Mowry in Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers, Cambridge, 1996, pp. 157-58, no. 50; the other in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, object number: 60.81.5.