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A JIANYAO HARE’S-FUR TEA BOWL WITH SILVER RIM A PAIR OF NORTHERN BLACK-WARE CIZHOU-TYPE
Song Dynasty, 12/13th Century CONJOINED CUPS AND CUP STANDS
The sides of the deep conical bowl turning more vertical below the Song/Jin Dynasties
silver-mounted rim, covered with a lustrous blackish-brown glaze lightly The deep rounded cups with wavy petal-form rims, the interiors white
streaked with russet ‘hare’s-fur’ markings below the unglazed russet- glazed, the exteriors under a mottled gray glaze and standing on
brown rim to the exterior and interior and pooling irregularly above the unusual conjoined saucer-shaped cup-stands glazed in a brown-black
pale-gray stoneware shallowly-cut foot; with a Japanese box. glaze revealing the hire-fired grey body at the foot of each.
4 3/4in (12cm) diameter 3 1/2in (8.9cm) diameter

$1,500 - 2,500 $5,000 - 7,000
宋 十二/十三世紀 建窯兔毫盞 宋/金 黑褐釉盞托一對

For a similar example from the kilns at Shuiji, Jinyang county, Fujian For a single Cizhou bowl covered with a black glaze to the exterior
province, see Robert D. Mowry, Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge and white glaze to the interior and dating to the Song dynasty, see
Feathers, Chinese Brown- and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Christie’s, London, 13 May 2014, lot 283, formerly in the Carl Kempe
Harvard University Art Museums, 1996, pp.220-222, no. 84. collection. For a Cizhou Black-glazed cup-stand dating to the Northern
Song era, see Bonhams, London, 7 November 2005, lot 34.

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