J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York

A very similar teabowl in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Gugong Bowuyuan Cang Wenwu Zhenpin Quanji: Liang Song Ciqi, I (The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelain of the Song Dynasty, I), Vol. 32, Hong Kong, 1996, no. 200, p. 222.

Another very similar teabowl from the Dane Collection, now in the Sackler Museum, Harvard University, is illustrated by Mowry in Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown- and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Cambridge, 1996, no. 31, pp. 132-133, with an extensive discussion of the method of manufacture and the Song fashion which inspired the production of these unusual bowls.

Other similar white-rimmed dark-brown-glazed teabowls are in the Tokyo National Museum, illustrated in The World’s Great Collections: Oriental Ceramics, Vol. 1, Tokyo, 1982, pl. 89; and in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, illustrated in the catalogue of The Charles B. Hoyt Collection Memorial Exhibition, Boston, 1952, no. 335, p. 84. Another very similar bowl of this type was illustrated by Trubner in Chinese Ceramics from the Prehistoric Period Through Ch’ien Lung, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1952, no. 211, p. 87, from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Myron S. Falk, Jr.