Lot 8023. A Jian russet-brown-glazed tea bowl, Song dynasty; 12.5 cm. Lot Sold 256,000 HKD (Estimate 200,000 - 400,000 HKD) © Sotheby's 2026

Provenance: Bluett & Sons, London, 1948.

Collection of Lord Cunliffe (1899–1963), coll. no. T30 (label).

Bonhams London, 11th November 2002, lot 44.

Kaikodo, New York, 2005.

Exhibited: Mostra d'Arte Cinese, Venice, 1954, cat. no. 493.

The Arts of the Sung Dynasty, Arts Council of Great Britain and The Oriental Ceramic Society, London, 1960, cat. no. 197.

Note: See a related 'Jian' teabowl of similar type in the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, was included in the exhibition Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Mass., 1995, cat. no. 79.

A similar 'Jian' bowl from the Alfred Clark Collection, was sold in Sotheby's London, 25th March 1975, lot 24; and another in Sotheby's New York, 20th March 2002, lot 112. Compare also a bowl from the Muwen Tang collection sold in Sotheby's London, 12th November 2003, lot 64.

Sotheby's. Possessing the Past, Hong Kong, 30 October 2026