Lot 23. A 'Jian' 'hare's fur' 'temmoku' tea bowl, Southern Song dynasty. Diameter 4 7/8  in., 12.4 cm. Estimate 30,000 — 40,000 USD. Unsold. Photo: Sotheby's.

well potted, the conical sides rising from a short foot to an indented rim, unctuously covered with a lustrous blackish-brown glaze finely streaked with russet 'hare's fur' markings, the glossy glaze falling short of the foot in a neat lustrous black bulge above the dark purple-brown body, the rim metal-bound, Japanese wood box (2). 

Provenance: Old Japanese Private Collection.

Sotheby's. Monochrome, New York, 15 sept. 2015