Huang Meijin Golden Oil Drop Incense-Burner Jianzhan Tenmoku Cha-wan HMJ040｜Jian Ware Tea Bowl with Certificate｜黄美金 金油滴香炉盏

THE SIGNATURE GLAZE OF HUANG MEIJIN

For serious Jian Zhan collectors, Huang Meijin 黄美金 is a name that is difficult to bypass.

And to collect Huang Meijin is to encounter the work that defines him:

Golden Oil Drop.

Huang Meijin is a Fujian Provincial Representative Inheritor of the Jian Kiln Jianzhan Firing Technique.

After years of research, experimentation and repeated firing, Golden Oil Drop became the unmistakable signature of his work.

His Golden Oil Drop Jian Zhan has entered the collection of the British Museum.

For the collector, the relationship is clear:

To collect Jian Zhan is to know Huang Meijin.
To collect Huang Meijin is to know Golden Oil Drop.

GOLDEN OIL DROP｜金油滴

Against the deep black glaze, gold-toned crystalline markings emerge through firing.

In softer light, the bowl remains dark and restrained.

Under stronger light, the gold begins to rise from the surface.

Black becomes bronze.

Bronze becomes gold.

The crystalline markings overlap and gather across the glaze, creating the depth and metallic brilliance that made Huang Meijin’s Golden Oil Drop so recognisable.

This is not simply a gold-coloured Jian Zhan.

It is the glaze language most closely associated with Huang Meijin himself.

THE BODY IS PART OF THE SIGNATURE

黄美金，不只看釉，也看胎

Huang Meijin’s works carry another identifying feature:

his distinctive fine-clay body.

Unlike the visibly coarser exposed body commonly associated with traditional Jian ware, Huang Meijin’s body is notably finer, denser and smoother to the touch.

For experienced collectors, this matters.

The glaze may be the first thing you notice.

But turn the bowl over and the body becomes another part of the maker’s identity.

The glaze identifies the style.
The body reinforces the maker.

INCENSE-BURNER FORM｜香炉盏

HMJ040 is where the form becomes equally important.

At approximately 10 cm in diameter and 5.7 cm in height, the bowl has an unusually low, compressed profile.

Imagine the familiar Shukou — 束口 — Jian Zhan form, then gently press the entire silhouette downward.

The mouth still gathers inward.

The body remains rounded.

But the centre of gravity becomes lower and broader.

The result is a bowl that feels more grounded, more sculptural and more substantial than a conventional tea-bowl profile.

That is the character of this Incense-Burner form｜香炉盏.

A DIFFERENT WAY TO SEE GOLDEN OIL DROP

The lower profile changes how the glaze is experienced.

Viewed from the side, the eye first reads the silhouette:

low, rounded, contained.

Viewed from above, the balance shifts immediately to the Golden Oil Drop.

The wider visual field allows the crystalline markings to spread across the interior with greater presence.

So HMJ040 gives the collector two experiences in one object:

the form from the side,
the glaze from above.

That is what separates it from simply adding another Golden Oil Drop bowl.

WHY THIS FORM MATTERS

Collectors do not need ten works that all say the same thing.

Once the maker and signature glaze are already established, form becomes the next level of distinction.

HMJ040 combines:

Huang Meijin
Golden Oil Drop
his distinctive fine-clay body
and a low, highly recognisable Incense-Burner form

The result feels less like a conventional tea bowl and more like a small ceramic object with real sculptural presence.

At only 10 cm across, it is not large.

But visually, it feels substantial.

That is precisely why this form works so well with Golden Oil Drop:

the glaze gives it brilliance;
the form gives it weight.

COLLECTOR DETAILS

Artist: Huang Meijin 黄美金
Glaze: Golden Oil Drop 金油滴
Form: Incense-Burner Bowl 香炉盏
Diameter: Approx. 10 cm
Height: Approx. 5.7 cm
Clay Body: Huang Meijin distinctive fine-clay body
Certificate: Included
Origin: Jianyang, Fujian, China
OVP Collection Ref.: HMJ040

黄美金 · 金油滴香炉盏｜HMJ040

收藏建盏，绕不开黄美金；
收藏黄美金，绕不开金油滴。

黄美金，“建窑建盏烧制技艺”福建省级代表性传承人。

经过多年研究、试验与反复烧制，金油滴成为他最具代表性的作品语言，其金油滴建盏进入大英博物馆收藏。

所以黄美金的金油滴，不能只当成一种漂亮釉色来看。

它就是他的代表。

金油滴｜黑得越深，金才越醒目

深黑釉面之上，金色结晶随着光线变化而显现。

弱光下，深沉、内敛。

强光下，黑色逐渐转成铜色、金色，结晶斑纹层层展开。

这正是黄美金金油滴最具辨识度的地方。

黄美金，不只看釉，也看胎

熟悉黄美金的藏家，还会把盏翻过来看。

因为他的作品还有一个非常重要的辨识特征：

标志性的细泥胎体。

与传统建盏较粗犷的露胎不同，黄美金的胎质更加细密、厚实、温润。

所以看黄美金：

第一眼看釉。
第二眼看胎。

两边都看，才完整。

香炉盏｜像一只被向下压低的束口盏

这只 HMJ040 的器型非常特别。

口径约10cm，高约5.7cm。

如果把一只传统束口盏，从上方轻轻向下压低：

束口还在。

圆腹还在。

但整个器型变得更矮、更宽，视觉重心明显下降。

这就是这只香炉盏最吸引人的地方。

它不是普通茶碗的比例。

更低。
更稳。
更有器物感。

从侧面看，先看到的是器型。

从上方看，视线马上被金油滴吸进去。

所以这一只真正有意思的，不只是黄美金的金油滴。

而是：

金油滴有光，
香炉盏有形。

两者放在一起，作品才成立。

HMJ040不同。

它同时具备：

黄美金。
金油滴。
标志性细胎。
香炉盏特殊器型。

不是为了多一只。

而是为了让收藏里面，出现一个完全不同的轮廓。