A Cizhou-type 'hare's fur' tea bowl, Song Dynasty. Photo Bonhams.

Potted with steep sides rising from a short narrow foot to an everted mouth rim, covered inside and out with a lustrous thick black glaze streaked with narrow russet 'hare's fur' markings, thinning to dark brown at the rim and pooling in a line above the foot dressed in a greyish-white wash. 12.3cm diam. Estimate HK$ 80,000 - 120,000 (€7,600 - 11,000). Unsold.

A very similar Cizhou-type 'hare's fur'-glazed tea bowl, previously in the Raymond A. Bidwell collection and accessioned to The Springfield Museum, was sold at Christie's New York, 21-22 March 2013, lot 1174.

Bonhams. FINE CHINESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART. Hong Kong, Admiralty, 26 May 2014 14:00 HKT - http://www.bonhams.com/