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DONGXI STUDIO
PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE BELGIAN COLLECTION

1494

A JIANYAO ‘HARE’S FUR’ TEA BOWL
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)

The bowl has slightly rounded conical sides and is covered inside and
out, below the matte, russet-brown, indented rim, with a lustrous
blackish-brown glaze densely streaked in russet with ‘hare’s fur’
markings that falls in a thick, irregular line to the foot to expose the
ware fred to a purplish-brown color.

5 in. (12.6 cm.) diam.

$4,000-6,000

PROVENANCE

Christie’s London, 8 December 1986, lot 213.

南宋 建窯兔毫盞

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