SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)

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A VERY RARE LARGE JIAN 'HARE’S FUR’ CONICAL BOWL
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)
The bowl is potted with deep sides flaring upwards to the gently everted rim covered inside and out with a lustrous black glaze finely streaked with russet 'hare's fur' markings thinning to russet at the rim and trimmed to a neat line above the foot ring exposing the dark body. The base is inscribed with a character sa (thirty).The mouth rim is mounted with a metal band.
7 7/8 in. (20.1 cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Compare the Jian 'hare’s fur'-glazed tea bowl of different shape and smaller size (12.4 cm. diam.), but also inscribed on the base with the character sa (thirty), and an additional character possibly reading liu (six), jia (nine) or da (large), in the Harvard University Art Museums, illustrated by R. D. Mowry in Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 1996, pp. 209-13, no. 77.

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