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

A very similar tea bowl from the Dane collection, now in the collection of the Harvard Unitersity Art Museums, is illustrated by Mowry, Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown- and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Cambridge, 1996, pp. 132-133, no. 31, where the author discusses the method of manufacture in detail and states: “The white rims on vessels of this type were inspired by the wide silver bands affixed to Ding and other aristocratic wares during the Song dynasty.”

Other similar conical tea bowls are illustrated by Lefebvre d’Argencé, The Hans Popper Collection of Oriental Art, Japan, 1973, pp. 173-174, no. 119; by Sullivan, Chinese Ceramics, Bronzes and Jades in the Collection of Sir Alan and Lady Barlow, London, 1963, no. C. 88, pl. 51b, with caption on p. 59; in Illustrated Catalogues of Tokyo National Museum: Chinese Ceramics I, Tokyo, 1988, p. 150, no. 603, and illustrated again by Koyama in Toji taikei 38: Temmoku (A Survey of Ceramics Series 38: Temmoku Wares), Tokyo, 1974, p. 62, nos. 60-61 and p. 91, fig. 10; and in the National Museum of History, Taiwan, exhibition catalogue entitled Terre de Neige, de Glace, et d’Ombre: Quatorze siècles d’histoire de la céramique chinoise á travers les collections du Musée Guimet, Taipei, 1999, pp. 174-175, no. 109.