BLACK-GLAZED RUSSET-SPLASHED BOWL
JIN DYNASTY
金 黑釉褐斑碗thickly potted with widely flared sides rising to the upturned rim, glazed to the interior and exterior with a black glaze ending on the exterior in an irregular line above the foot, the interior with five concentric russet splashes and four spur marks 
19cm diameter 
Private Scottish collection, Scottish Borders. The owner had an enduring friendship with Dr Kenneth Lawley (1937-2023), a lifelong Asian art collector and a significant part of whose collection was sold in this saleroom, 3 November 2023, lot 1-95. Dr Lawley was close to the collection offered in this sale, indeed some of the items came directly from him. He would share his research, his catalogue, and his admiration of these items with the owner, as a natural consequence of their friendship. Acquired from Dr Kenneth Lawley, 9 Feb 2005, with an original invoice, who bought from Bluett & Sons Ltd., 14 June 1972, with an original receipt and label. Exhibited: Early Oriental Ceramics, MacRobert Centre, University of Stirling, 5-25 July 1973, no. 30, with an associated label on the body adjacent to the aforementioned label. Illustrated in the exhibition photograph (circled). 
Though attributed to Henan kiln and dated to Song dynasty in the original receipt issued by Bluett & Sons, compare to a Jizhou russet-decorated black-glazed bowl, Jin or Yuan Dynasty, also with three unglazed round marks in the interior, sold at Bonhams Sydney, 18 November 2012, lot 74. Also see a Henan black-glazed russet-splashed bowl, Song dynasty, previously in the collection of Dr Kenneth Lawley, sold at Sotheby's London, 8 Nov 2024, lot 308.