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185 Jianyao tea bowls of this type were favoured by the Imperial Court.
The gongyu inscription, which may be translated as ‘Imperial Tribute’,
A fine and rare Imperially-inscribed Jianyao ‘silver- indicates how highly prized such wares were.
hare’s-fur’ tea bowl
Southern Song Dynasty A similar Jianyao tea bowl with comparable silvery hare’s fur markings
and gongyu inscription, in the collection of the Harvard University
Potted with steep sides rising to a finger groove below the mouth Art Museum, Boston, is illustrated in Robert Mowry, Hare’s Fur,
rim, covered inside and out with a black glaze finely streaked with Tortoiseshell and Partridge Feathers. Chinese Brown and Black-Glazed
narrow silver-coloured ‘hare’s fur’ markings, pooling thickly above the Ceramics,400-1400, Cambridge, 1996, p.204, no.7. The illustrated
foot revealing the dark grey-brown ware, the base carved with two bowl was attributed by the author to the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang
characters reading gong yu. county, Fujian province.
12.3cm diam.
Another Jianyao black-glazed ‘silver-hare’s-fur’ tea bowl from the
HK$350,000 - 400,000 Ronald W. Longsdorf Collection, is illustrated by J.J. Lally & Co., Song
US$45,000 - 52,000 Dynasty Ceramics, New York, 2013, no.40. Compare also a related
example sold at Sotheby’s London, 11 May 2011, lot 7.
南宋 建窯黑釉「供御」款兔毫盞
盞呈帽笠狀，撇口，斜直壁，淺圈足。通體迤黑釉，口沿釉薄呈醬

色，釉垂流但不著底部，露出鐵黑色胎，底部刻有「供御」楷書款。

釉中有兔毛狀銀色結晶，散落有致，感覺雅緻。

宋代建窯以兔毫盞最為有名，甚得當時文人喜愛，並賦文讚詠，如蔡

襄《茶錄》云：「兔毫紫甌新，蟹眼清泉煮。」而帶有「供御」款代

表御製之兔毫盞便更為珍貴，根據出土件之考究，「供御」款之建窯

盞相信是產於公元1112-1170年之間。

其他「供御」款之兔毫盞可見哈佛藝術博物館之藏品，見Mowry著，
《Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown -
and Black - Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400》，劍橋，1996年，頁204，
編號76。以及玫茵堂之藏品，見Krahl著，《Chinese Ceramics from
the Meiyintang Collection》，第一冊，倫敦，1994年，頁285，編
號529。另一件與本拍品相似的例子，來自Ronald W. Longsdorf 珍
藏，見Lally著，《Song Dynasty Ceramics: the Ronald W. Longsdorf
Collection》，紐約，2013年，編號40。

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