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Tea Bowl with "Hare's Fur" Streaking (Jian ware)
Tea Bowl with "Hare's Fur" Streaking (Jian ware)
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Tea Bowl with "Hare's Fur" Streaking (Jian ware)

Date12th or 13th century, Northern Song dynasty (960–1127) or Southern song dynasty (1127–1279)
Mediumcoarse-grained stoneware with iron-rich lime-alkali glaze with iron-oxide streaks
Dimensions6.4 x 12 cm (2 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.)
ClassificationsCeramics
Credit LineGift of Miss Mabel Carleton Gage
Object number1935.143
DescriptionTea bowl of Jian Type. Brown glaze "rabbit's hair" on brown pottery glaze. Stoneware with Temmoku glaze. 7/18/51 J. Plumer: Found this piece of interest. Said it was Chien ware. From the kiln site at Shui-chi, on the Chien river. Rim shows where it stuck to sagger. In a piece not from kiln site this would have been smoothed down and perhaps fitted with a rim. If I understood Mr. P. correctly he excavated at the above site about 1935.
ProvenanceMiss Mabel Carleton Gage, Worcester, MA.
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Tea Bowl with "Hare's Fur" Streaking (Jian ware)
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