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 iron oxide, the base with an incised inscription reading 'Gongyu'. From the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province, probably from those at Luhuaping or Chidun. 8.1 x 12.2 cm (3 3/16 x 4 13/16 in.). Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Shumei Culture Foundation Fund, 1995.7 © 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. 204-209, no. 76