A rare Chinese 'oilspot' black-glazed bowl

Jin dynasty (1115-1234)
The conical body covered to the interior with a lustrous black glaze suffused with a pattern of silver-coloured oil spots, continuing over the rim stopping short to reveal a layer of brown glaze ending above the foot, revealing the sand coloured buff with black mark.
Diam. 11.7 cm

Provenance:
- Michael Willcox, London (2004)
- Collection Drs. Koos de Jong, Amsterdam

Compare:
- [cat.] Black Porcelain from the Yeung Wing Tak collection, Hong Kong 1997, no. 81, p. 167
- [exhib.cat.] Song Ceramics from the Kwan Collection, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong 1994, no. 158, p. 353
- [exhib.cat.] Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers. Chinese brown- and black-glaze ceramics, 400-1400 (ed. R.D. Mowry), Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge (MA) 1996, no. 43a-b, p. 149 and no. 46, p. 153
- R. Kerr, Song Ceramics, V&A Museum, London 2004, no. 83 - 84, p. 83