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I55-CHIEN YAO TEA BOWL (Sung)
From Fuchien province. Brown porcellanous stoneware
fashioned in ovoid form on a low foot, straightening near
the lip and there so modeled as to make the exterior slightly
concave and the interior boldly convex, giving the appear-
ance on the inner side of a light flare; the rim bound in
silver. The entire interior is coated with a rich enamel
glaze of trickling waterfall effect, the black ground being
finely streaked with varying tones of brown, while on the
outside the thick flow stops well short of the foot, the
character of the glaze being the same, and on both surfaces
showing a metallic luster. This is of the type of the "hare's
fur cups" of collectors, highly appreciated for the tea
ceremony of the time in China, and also valued at immense
prices by the Japanese, as Dr. Bushell specially points out.
Diameter, 4%, inches.

156--CHUN-YAO COUPE (Sung)
Porcellanous stoneware, the body bulging abruptly from a
low foot and contracting in ovoidal curvature, finishing as
a truncated cone, with wide mouth. Covered on both outer
and inner surfaces with a crackled clair-de-lune glaze gray-
ish in tone, especially on the outside, which is time-stained
and of soft luster. Has carved teakwood stand.
Height, 4 inches; diameter, 4% inches.

157--CHUN-YAO BOWL (Sung)
Ovoid, springing from a bold foot, and folding inward at
the rim. Porcellanous stoneware, responding in a short
note, covered on both exterior and interior with a heavy
glaze of pure turquoise hue, with pitted surface, and ex-
hibiting, especially on the interior surface, a bold crackle.
About the rim, where the glaze thins, the gray tone of the
body ware comes into evidence. Has stand.
Diameter, 6 inches.