2001.222: Large Tea Bowl with Flaring Lip and Silvery Brown Hare’s-Fur Markings

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2001.222

Title

Large Tea Bowl with Flaring Lip and Silvery Brown Hare’s-Fur Markings

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

12th-13th century

Places

Creation Place: East Asia, China, Fujian Province, Jianyang

Period

Song dynasty, 960-1279

Culture

Chinese

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/149555

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Jian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze enlivened with markings in overglaze iron-brown slip. From the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province.

Dimensions

H. 7.6 × Diam. 16.8 cm (3 × 6 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Provenance:
J.J. Lally & Co., New York
Christie’s, New York, Sale 9822, Lot 91
Mr. and Mrs. Myron S. Falk, Jr. Collection, New York (Collection number 103); purchased from C.T. Loo & Cie, Paris, in February 1963
C.T. Loo & Cie, Paris
Mme. Ramet, Paris

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, David Berg, Esq., Bequest Fund and Diran Kavork Dohanian Fund

Accession Year

2001

Object Number

2001.222

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

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Publication History

• Robert D. Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese brown- and black-glazed ceramics, 400-1400, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1996), pp. 217-218, no. 81

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