Teabowl with Slightly Indented Lip and Pale Russet Hare's Fur Markings, Song dynasty, 12th-13th century. Jian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in iron oxide; the rim banded with metal. From the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province. H. 6.4 x Diam. 13 cm (2 1/2 x 5 1/8 in.). Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane, 1942.185.441 © President and Fellows of Harvard College.

Publication History: Valentine Talland, "Technical Examination of Southern Chinese Chien Ware and Japanese Copies in the Harvard University Art Museums Collection" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1988), Unpublished, pp. 1-21 passim