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A RARE LARGE ‘JIAN’ ‘HARE’S FUR’
BOWL
SONG DYNASTY

the deep flaring sides rising from a short straight foot to an
everted rim, covered overall in a lustrous black glaze streaked
to the interior and exterior with brown ‘hare’s fur’ marks, falling
short of the foot to reveal the brown body, the base inscribed
with a single character
19.2 cm, 7½ in.
A related bowl is published in The Complete Collection of
Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelain of the Song Dynasty
(ll), Hong Kong, 1995, pl. 209; and two others were included in
the exhibition Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell and Partridge Feathers:
Chinese Brown and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Harvard
University Art Museums, Cambridge, Mass., 1995-96, cat. nos
80 and 81.
The single character inscribed on the base of the present bowl
may be intended to read wu (five) or zheng (regular); several
Jian ware bowls and fragments with similar inscriptions are
illustrated in James Marshal Plumer, Tenmoku: A Study of the 56
Ware of Chien, Tokyo, 1972, pls 44-50 and 52.

£ 20,000-30,000
HK$ 203,000-304,000 US$ 25,900-38,800
宋 建窰黑釉兔毫盞

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A ‘CIZHOU’ CARVED ‘PEONY’
MEIPING
YUAN DYNASTY
the slender tapering baluster body rising from a recessed base
to a narrow neck with tapering conical mouth, carved through
the reddish-brown glaze to the buff-coloured body with a broad
peony band, all between lotus lappets at the base and a floral
scroll band at the shoulder
36 cm, 14¼ in.
‡ £ 4,000-6,000
HK$ 40,600-61,000 US$ 5,200-7,800
元 磁州窰刻牡丹紋梅瓶

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