Tea Bowl with Brown Hare's-Fur Markings, Jin dynasty, probably 12th century. Northern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide, the lower portion dressed with dark brown slip. 8.4 x 15.6 cm (3 5/16 x 6 1/8 in.). Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane, 1942.185.421 © President and Fellows of Harvard College.

Publication History: 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. 156-157, no. 49