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A ‘JIAN’ ‘HARE’S FUR’ TEABOWL
SONG DYNASTY
the steep, conical sides with a subtly concave
band just below the tapered rim, covered in a
thick, opalescent chestnut-colored glaze su< used
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with lustrous black streaks emanating upward in
! ne lines from the well and around the exterior,
the glaze pooling in an uneven line issuing three
thick drops revealing the dark gray stoneware
body, the base incised with the two-character
phrase gongyu (imperial tribute), Japanese box
(3)
Diameter 4⅞ in., 12.3 cm
A closely related ‘Jian’ ‘hare’s fur’ teabowl, but
without the gongyu mark, in the collection of the
Arthur M. Sackler Museum at Harvard University
was exhibited in Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and
Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown- and Black-
Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Harvard University
Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, 1995-1997, cat.
no. 79. For a discussion of the manufacturing
process of these bowls, their appreciation by
Emperor Huizong (r. 1100-1126), and their use
in tea ceremony, see ibid., pp. 212-214. Similar
bowls carved with gongyu marks include one from
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the Yangdetang Collection sold at Christie’s Hong
Kong, 30th November 2016, lot 3157; and another
sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 1st-2nd June 2015,
lot 589.
$ 12,000-15,000
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A LARGE ‘JIAN’ ‘HARE’S FUR’
BOWL
SONG - JIN DYNASTY
the conical sides rising from a straight foot to an
everted rim, covered overall in a viscous black
glaze pooling in thick drops around the biscuit
foot, the rim su< used with brown tones trickling
down the interior and exterior walls in a ‘hare’s
fur’ pattern
Diameter 8⅛ in., 20.6 cm
$ 30,000-50,000
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