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Chinese Jian Ware Type Oil-Spot Tea Bowl
Auction Date: August 10, 2019
Estimate: Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500
This item has been sold.
Lot: 467
The deep conical body supported on a short splayed knife-pared foot to a slightly everted rim, covered overall with a lustrous black glaze infused to the interior and exterior with iridescent silvery oil-spots speckles, the glazestopping short of the foot revealing the coarse buff body, the rimbound in gold-metal band.
Diameter: 5 inches (12.7 cm).
Provenance:
From the collection of Captain Edward Pearce, Annapolis, Maryland, who served the U.S. Navy stationed in Japan, and England during the 1960s to early 1970s.