Tea Bowl with Indented Lip and Silvery Brown Hare's-Fur Markings, Song dynasty, 12th-13th century. Jian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze enlivened with markings in overglaze iron-brown slip; the lip banded with metal. From the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province. H. 7.3 x Diam. 12.7 cm (2 7/8 x 5 in.). Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of David Berg, Esq., 1999.230.6 © President and Fellows of Harvard College.

Publication History: Sadako Ohki, Tea Culture of Japan, exh. cat. (New Haven, 2009), p. 24 & 83/Cat. 7, repr.

Exhibition History: A Decade of Collecting: Asian Acquisitions 1990-1999, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 03/11/2000 - 11/05/2000

Streams and Mountains without End: Landscape Paintings from China, Korea, and Japan, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 11/25/2000 - 08/26/2001

Rocks, Mountains, Landscapes and Gardens: The Essence of East Asian Painting ('04), Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 01/31/2004 - 08/01/2004

A Compelling Legacy: Masterworks of East Asian Painting, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 08/24/2004 - 03/20/2005

Forging the New: East Asian Painting in the Twentieth Century, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 05/03/2005 - 10/16/2005

Downtime, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 04/28/2007 - 04/20/2008

Chanoyu: Japanese Tea Culture Past and Present, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 01/20/2009 - 04/26/2009