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3 septembre 2015

An exceptional Jianyao 'Hare's fur' tea bowl and a tixi lacquer stand bowl, Southern Song dynasty

An exceptional Jianyao 'Hare's fur' tea bowl and a tixi lacquer stand bowl, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279); lacquer stand, Southern Song-Yuan dynasty, 12th-13th century

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 An exceptional Jianyao 'Hare's fur' tea bowl and a tixi lacquer stand bowl, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279); lacquer stand, Southern Song-Yuan dynasty, 12th-13th century. Estimate $80,000 – $120,000. Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2015

The bowl is mounted with a silver rim, covered with a thick black glaze finely streaked with iridescent 'hare's fur' markings, stopping irregularly above the foot exposing the chocolate-brown body. The tixi lacquer stand is constructed with a hexafoil flange, and is carved on the exterior with sword-pommel scrolls. Bowl: 4 ½ in. (11.4 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box

ProvenanceEnmanyin-monzeki Temple, Shiga, Japan. 
The Manno Art Museum Collection, no. 0428. 

Notes: An Enmanyin-monzeki Temple sticker accompanies the original wood box for the current bowl and lacquer stand. It is known that after World War II the temple deaccessioned some of their possessions to the Manno Museum of Art, and it is likely that this bowl and stand were part of this group. 

The bowl has a very attractive black glaze with a remarkable iridescent sheen which is rarely seen. The formation of patterns on Jian ware bowls depends on the specific oxides of iron that form in firing and to the type of crystals that develop as the glaze cools. 

Compare the Jian 'hare's fur' bowl of similar shape and with equally attractive glaze, illustrated in Sekai toji zenshu - Song, vol. 12, 1997, Tokyo, pl. 96-98. 

Jian black-glazed bowls were intended primarily for the drinking of tea. The choice of tea during the Song and Jin periods was a pale tea that was whisked to produce a white froth on top. Black-glazed bowls such as the present example became increasingly popular as they showed off the frothy white tea to great advantage. 

Christie's. FINE CHINESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART, 17 - 18 September 2015, New York, Rockefeller Plaza

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