Lot 66
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A JIANYAO HARE'S-FUR TEA BOWL

Details
A JIANYAO HARE'S-FUR TEA BOWL
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY

With thickly potted, flaring sides, covered inside and out with a lustrous blackish glaze densely streaked in russet with hare's fur markings falling short in a pooled line above the shallow, the circular foot exposing the dark gray stoneware, the indented mouth rim covered with a matte, iron-rich slip
4 7/8in. (12.3cm.) diam., box

Lot Essay

Compare a similar bowl in the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, included in the exhibition, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 23, 1995-March 10, 1996, illustrated by Robert Mowry in the Catalogue, pp. 213-214, no. 79