Tea Bowl with Indented Lip and Russet Hare's-Fur Markings, Song dynasty, 12th-13th century. Jian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide, the base with a brush-written inscription reading 'Te'. H. 6.6 x Diam. 12.4 cm (2 5/8 x 4 7/8 in.). Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Dr. Horace Emerson Campbell, 1940.3 © 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Museums Collection" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1988), Unpublished, pp. 1-21 passim 

Robert D. Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese brown- and black-glazed ceramics, 400-1400, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1996), pp. 213-215, no. 79