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853 A LARGE RUSSET-MOTTLED 北宋ǭ黑釉鐵斑≡
BLACK-GLAZED VASE
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1127) Ϝ源
臨宇山՞Ⅷ藏
東京
The vase has an ovoid body that rises to a short, narrow neck with
藍理捷
紐約
編號
a wide flaring lip, and is covered overall with a lustrous brownish-
black glaze speckled with russet mottling that ends above the foot. 展覽
麻省劍橋
ৌד大學薩克勒博物館
年 月 日 年
11º in. (28.6 cm.) high, cloth box
月 日
$20,000-30,000 紐約
華美協進社
年 月 日 月 日
威斯康辛麥迪遜
威斯康辛大學麥迪遜分校&MWFIKFN美ワ館
PROVENANCE:
Linyushanren Collection, Tokyo. （→$IB[FO美ワ館）
年 月 年 月 日
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4840. ֨ḛ
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Cambridge, Massachusetts, Arthur M. Sackler Museum,
Harvard University, 23 December 1995-10 March 1996. 省劍橋
年
頁
編號
New York, China Institute Gallery, 20 April-6 July 1996.
Madison, Wisconsin, Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of
Wisconsin, 9 November 1996-19 January 1997.

LITERATURE:
R. Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers,
Cambridge, 1996, pp. 135-136, no. 33.
In his discussion of the current vase in Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell,
and Partridge Feathers, Cambridge, 1996, pp. 135-36, Robert
Mowry cites a very similar vase in the Idemitsu Museum,
Tokyo, which has a brush-written inscription on the base
reading: Xuanhe yuannian wuyue ershiri suo zao, (‘Made on
the twentieth day of the fifth month of the first year of the
Xuanhe [1119]’). The Idemitusu vase is illustrated in Sįdai no
toji (Ceramics of the Song Dynasty), Tokyo, 1979, no. 74;
in ChĿgoku tįji: Idemitsu bijutsukan zįhin zuroku (Chinese
Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection), Tokyo, 1987,
no. 530; and was also previously published by Y. Mino
852 A JIAN ‘HARE’S FUR’ TEA BOWL 南宋ǭ建窯兔毫盞 in Freedom of Clay and Brush Through Seven Centuries in
Northern China: Tz’u-chou Type Wares, 960-1600 A.D.,
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)
Indianapolis, 1980, p. 224.
The conical bowl is covered overall with a black glaze streaked Ϝ源
with brown and silvery ‘hare’s fur’ markings, which thins to a 藍理捷
紐約
編號 A related truncated meiping is illustrated by
russet-brown tone at the rim and ends above the foot. Li Zhiyan and S. Kwan, Song dai taoci (Song
4√ in. (12.4 cm.) diam., cloth box Ceramics), Hong Kong, 2012, pp. 408-409,
no. 168, where the authors cite another similar
$3,000-5,000 example of smaller size in the Beijing Palace
PROVENANCE: Museum, illustrated in The Complete Collection of
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4773. Treasures of the Palace Museum - 32 - Northern and
Southern Song (I), Hong Kong, 1996, p. 223,
A Jian ‘hare’s fur’-glazed tea bowl of this classic form in the no. 201.
Victoria and Albert Museum is illustrated by R. Kerr in Song

Dynasty Ceramics, London, 2004, p. 113, pls. 114 and 114a.
Another similarly glazed Song-dynasty tea bowl of this form,
with metal-bound rim, from the Linyushanren Collection,
was sold at Christie's New York, 13 September 2019, lot 1032.

The result of C-Link Research and Development Ltd.
thermoluminescence test no. 8854BA19 is consistent with the
dating of this lot.

(another view)

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