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A ‘JIAN’ RUSSET-STREAKED ‘NOGIME Considered by the Song Emperor Huizong (r. 1101-25) to
TENMOKU’ BOWL be one of the most desirable tea wares, Jian bowls with
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY hare’s fur streaks were held in great esteem not only in
China but also in Japan. The dark and dynamically speckled
potted with deep sides rising from a short straight foot to interiors create an attractive contrast with the fine white
a thin concave groove below the rim, covered with a glossy foam of whisked tea. Bowls produced by the Jian kilns of
black glaze streaked with russet ‘hare’s fur’ running from the Fujian province were most likely already brought to Japan
rim and pooling within the groove, the glaze stopping neatly in the Kamakura period (1185-1333), when Japanese monks
above the foot revealing the dark brown body, the rim bound discovered the art of ritual tea preparation at Buddhist
with metal, Japanese wood box (3) temples in southern China.
Diameter 4⅞ in., 12.6 cm See similar bowls of this type, including one preserved
in the National Palace Museum, Taipei (accession no.
PROVENANCE 故-瓷-008624); and three other examples now in The
Hirano Kotoken, Tokyo. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (accession nos
29.100.230, 29.100.227, 17.179.2), the first, recently
included in the Museum’s exhibition Kyoto: Capital of Artistic
Imagination, New York, 2020, the second illustrated in
Denise Patry Leidy, How to Read Chinese Ceramics, New
York, 2015, pl. 15.
⊖ $ 60,000-80,000

南宋 建窰兔毫釉天目茶盞

來源
平野古陶軒，東京

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