A russet-splashed black-glazed 'partridge feather' bowl, Northern Song dynasty | 北宋 黑釉鐵鏽飛斑天目盞

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Notable for its thickly applied and particularly lustrous black glaze, this tea bowl is covered with splashes that have pulled downward with gravity, becoming large vertical brown streaks. The exterior of both bowls are entirely covered in a russet-brown glaze, a common practice at Cizhou kilns in the 11th and early 12th century.

Teabowls similarly decorated with asymmetrical vertical streaks include three reconstructed examples recovered from the Guantai kiln site in Ci county, Hebei province, and illustrated in The Cizhou Kiln Site at Guantai, Beijing, 1997, pl. 65, fig. 1; a bowl sold in our London rooms, 20th June 2001, lot 64; and another sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 1st June 2016, lot 3124.