J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
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The Gordon Collection:
Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
March 12 - April 4, 2009
56.
A JIANYAO ‘HARE’S FUR’ GLAZED TEABOWL
Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1279)
with steep flaring sides rising to a tapered rim, and with an indented ‘finger-groove’ below the lip on the exterior, the sturdy walls of the bowl covered inside and out with a thick, lustrous black glaze streaked with rust-brown ‘hare’s fur’ markings extending down from the rust-brown glaze around the mouth where the surface turns matte around the edge, the glaze ending in a thick roll low on the exterior where the sides are angled in, the lower sides and the small disc-shaped foot left unglazed revealing the coarse dark brown ware.
Diameter 4 3⁄8 inches (11.1 cm)
A Jian ware teabowl of very similar “yankou wan” form and with similar russet-color ‘hare’s fur’ markings in the Collection of the Harvard University Art Museum was exhibited and published by Mowry in Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown- and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Cambridge, 1996, no. 79, pp. 213-215, where the author notes “…a related bowl recovered at the Luhuaping kiln site in 1960 has been assigned to the late Northern Song period.”
For an extensive discussion of the Jian kilns in northern Fujian province, the different shapes and types of teabowls which were produced there, and tea-drinking customs in the Song dynasty, see Mowry, Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown- and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Cambridge, 1996, pp. 204-222.
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56.
A JIANYAO ‘HARE’S FUR’ GLAZED TEABOWL
Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1279)
Diameter 4 3⁄8 inches (11.1 cm)