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A JIAN ‘HAIKATSUGI’ GREYISH BROWN-GLAZED TEA
BOWL
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)
The bowl is finely potted with thin, rounded sides supported on a short foot, applied with
an attractive mottled greyish-brown glaze thinning to an olive-green colour, stopping
irregularly above the foot revealing the dark-brown body.
4Ω in. (11.5 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box dated to 1782
HK$200,000-400,000 US$26,000-52,000

PROVENANCE
The Maeda Family Collection, Japan, acquired prior to 1782 (according to inscription on
Japanese wood box)
The cover of the Japanese wood box accompanying the current lot bears an inscription recording
the head of the Maeda Family renewed the cloth wrap of this bowl in Tenmei second year,
corresponding to 1782. The Maeda Family was one of the most powerful feudal warlords ruling inscription on Japanese wood box
日本木盒上之題記
central Japan from the 16th to 19th century. This type of Jian bowl, covered with an unusual
greyish-brown glaze, was revered in Japanese tea ceremony, and was known as haikatsugi
tenmoku (ash-covered) or ki tenmoku (yellow) bowl in Japan.

南宋 建窯「灰被天目」盌
連日本朱漆盌托
來源
日本前田家珍藏，入藏於 1782 年以前（根據日本木盒上之題記）
本拍品之原裝木盒蓋底記有天明二年（1782）及前田家之題記。前田家為日本江戶時期重要藩主。
本盌內外施灰褐色釉，釉薄處露青黃色，在日本稱為「灰被天目」或「黃天目」，被視為重要茶
道用器。

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