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PROPERTY FROM THE ANNA-MARIA AND STEPHEN KELLEN FOUNDATION, NEW YORK (interior)

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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 faring upwards to the gently everted rim
covered inside and out with a lustrous black glaze fnely 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√ in. (20.1 cm.) diam.
$10,000-15,000

Compare the Jian `hare’s fur’-glazed tea bowl of diferent 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.
南宋 建窯兔毫大盞

(inscription on base)

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