宋至金 黑釉油滴盌

well potted with steep sides rising from a short straight foot to a rim bordered with a thin concave groove, unctuously covered overall save for the foot with a lustrous black-brown glaze attractively suffused with iridescent silvery-brown 'oil spots' of varying sizes, the glaze thinning to chocolate-brown at the rim and neatly stopping short of the lower body and foot, the unglazed section applied with a black dressing to conceal the pale grey body

J.J. Lally & Co.，紐約

It is in overall very good condition. The glaze has been very well preserved with only occasional light scratches.
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此類黑釉油滴盌，依 Robert D. Mowry 於《Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers. Chinese Brown- and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400》中所見，多燒製於中國北方窰口，仿建窰茶盞（哈佛藝術博物館，劍橋，馬薩諸塞州，1996年，頁149-150）。此類「油滴」視覺效果，來自於在其兩層富鐵深棕釉下，通體連足加罩一層黑色化妝土，妙仿建盞黑胎。

大維德爵士舊藏有一類例，現存倫敦大英博物館，錄於《Imperial Taste. Chinese Ceramics from the Percival David Foundation》，大英博物館，倫敦，1989年，編號9。再比二例，藏劍橋哈佛大學藝術博物館，展於《Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers》，前述出處，編號43a及b。紐約蘇富比又曾售一相似例，2015年9月15日，編號8。