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A JIAN HARES-FUR TEABOWL SONG DYNASTY
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description
sturdily potted with steeply flaring sides rising from a short straight foot to a straight rim, covered inside and out with a lustrous black glaze irregularly splashed with iron-red in imitation of hares-fur, traces of overglaze floral decoration to the interior
Provenance
Formerly in the A. Schoenlicht Collection (by repute).
Exhibited
Orangerie Des Tuileries, Paris, (probably 1937) no.653.
Catalogue Note
The decoration around the interior, now much obscured, is likely to have been painted in powdered gold. For a Jian tea bowl with similar decoration, see R.Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers, Cambridge, 1995, Catalogue no.86,