Huang Meijin Golden Oil Drop Xingyun Small Bowl Jianzhan Tenmoku Cha-wan HMJ039｜Jian Ware Tea Bowl with Certificate｜黄美金 金油滴星云小钵

TO COLLECT JIAN ZHAN IS TO ENCOUNTER 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 collectors, the relationship between maker and glaze is unusually 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

Gold against black is the first impression.

But a Huang Meijin Golden Oil Drop is more than a colour effect.

Across the deep black glaze, gold-toned crystalline markings emerge through firing, gathering into overlapping, scale-like structures with a distinctly three-dimensional surface.

In softer light, the bowl appears deep and restrained.

Move it toward stronger light and the gold begins to come forward.

The surface changes from black to bronze to luminous gold.

The darkness gives the gold its power.

This is the glaze language with which Huang Meijin built his name.

You are not simply collecting a beautiful Golden Oil Drop.

You are collecting Huang Meijin in the form for which he became known.

THE BODY IS ALSO PART OF THE SIGNATURE

黄美金，不只看釉，也看胎

Experienced collectors do not stop at the glaze.

Turn the bowl over.

The clay body tells another part of the story.

For his Golden Oil Drop works, Huang Meijin developed a distinctive fine-clay body, using finely processed local natural clay rather than the visibly coarser exposed body commonly associated with traditional Jian ware.

The result is notably finer, denser and smoother to the touch.

This was not merely cosmetic.

Producing Jian Zhan with a finely processed body creates additional firing difficulty, particularly at the high temperatures required for the glaze.

For Huang Meijin, the body became part of the system behind Golden Oil Drop.

And for collectors familiar with his work:

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

This is one of the details worth examining closely on an authentic Huang Meijin work.

XINGYUN BOWL｜星云钵

The Xingyun Bowl carries another story entirely.

In 2015, Huang Meijin presented a Golden Oil Drop alms bowl to Venerable Master Hsing Yun 星云大师, founder of Fo Guang Shan.

Master Hsing Yun admired and collected the work and gave the form the name:

Xingyun Bowl｜星云钵

He subsequently authorised Huang Meijin to use his own private seal as a base mark on works from the Xingyun Bowl series.

That authorisation created one of the most recognisable details of these works.

TWO BASE MARKS｜双底款

Turn over a Huang Meijin Xingyun Bowl and there is another reason to look closely.

The base carries:

Huang Meijin’s maker’s mark
＋
Venerable Master Hsing Yun’s authorised seal

Two marks.

Two identities connected to the history of one work.

The Hsing Yun seal is not an ornamental motif added simply for decoration.

It records the cultural relationship behind the creation and naming of the Xingyun Bowl itself.

For a collector, this makes the base almost as important to examine as the glaze.

Before you turn it over, it is a Huang Meijin Golden Oil Drop.
Turn it over, and you know it is a Xingyun Bowl.

HMJ039 · XINGYUN SMALL BOWL

HMJ039 is an approximately 9.5 cm Xingyun Small Bowl.

Its compact, rounded form is quiet and contained.

Inside and across the exterior, Huang Meijin’s Golden Oil Drop provides the opposite experience — luminous, textured and highly responsive to light.

Then turn the work over:

the distinctive fine clay body,

Huang Meijin’s mark,

and Master Hsing Yun’s authorised seal.

This is why HMJ039 is more than another attractive Golden Oil Drop.

It brings together several of the signatures most closely associated with Huang Meijin:

The maker.
The Golden Oil Drop.
The distinctive fine-clay body.
The Xingyun form.
The dual base marks.

For a collection intended to represent Huang Meijin seriously,

this is the kind of work that explains the artist without needing much explanation.

COLLECTOR DETAILS

Artist: Huang Meijin 黄美金
Glaze: Golden Oil Drop 金油滴
Form: Xingyun Small Bowl 星云小钵
Diameter: Approx. 95 * 58 mm
Clay Body: Huang Meijin distinctive fine-clay body
Base Marks: Huang Meijin maker’s mark + authorised Venerable Master Hsing Yun seal
Certificate: Included
Origin: Jianyang, Fujian, China
OVP Collection Ref.: HMJ039

黄美金 · 金油滴星云小钵｜HMJ039

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，金油滴成为黄美金最具代表性的作品语言，其金油滴建盏更进入大英博物馆收藏。

所以看黄美金，不能只问：

“这一只金油滴漂不漂亮？”

而应该看：

是不是黄美金真正有代表性的作品。

金油滴｜他的代表作

深黑釉面之上，金色结晶自然生成。

弱光下深沉。

强光下，金色逐渐从黑釉中亮起。

斑纹层层重叠，呈现出明显的立体感与金属光泽。

黑得越深，金才越醒目。

对黄美金而言，金油滴并不是众多釉色中的一种。

它就是他的代表。

黄美金，不只看釉，也看胎

熟悉黄美金作品的藏家，往往还会把盏翻过来看。

因为他的作品还有另一个很重要的辨识特征：

胎体。

为了配合金油滴的烧制，黄美金发展出极具个人特点的细泥胎体。

与传统建盏较粗犷的露胎不同，它更加细密、厚实、温润，触感也更细腻。

这种细胎在建盏高温烧制中并不容易控制。

因此，对黄美金作品来说：

釉，是第一眼；
胎，是第二眼。

真正懂的人，两边都看。

星云钵｜还有第三眼：底款

2015年，黄美金将金油滴禅钵呈赠星云大师。

作品得到星云大师赞赏及收藏，并赐名：

“星云钵”。

更重要的是，星云大师随后授权黄美金，将自己的私人印章用于星云钵系列的底款。

因此，真正的黄美金星云钵有一个非常有辨识度的收藏特征：

双底款

黄美金底款
＋
星云大师授权印章

这个印章不是普通装饰。

它记录了“星云钵”名称与这一段文化因缘的来源。

所以看一只黄美金星云钵：

第一眼，看金油滴。
第二眼，看胎。
第三眼，翻过来看双底款。

器型圆融、内敛。

金油滴在深色釉面上随着光线变化而显现。

翻到底部，则能同时看到黄美金极具辨识度的细胎，以及星云钵特有的双底款。

所以收藏这一只，不只是收藏一个漂亮的釉色。

而是几个重要条件同时成立：

黄美金。
金油滴。
标志性细胎。
星云钵。
双底款。

如果一套收藏要真正能够代表黄美金，这样的作品，才有代表性。