Large Tea Bowl with Flaring 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. From the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province. 7.6 x 16.8 cm (3 x 6 5/8 in.). Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, David Berg, Esq., Bequest Fund and Diran Kavork Dohanian Fund, 2001.222 © President and Fellows of Harvard College. 

Provenance: J.J. Lally & Co., New York
Christie’s, New York, Sale 9822, Lot 91
Mr. and Mrs. Myron S. Falk, Jr. Collection, New York (Collection number 103); purchased from C.T. Loo & Cie, Paris, in February 1963
C.T. Loo & Cie, Paris
Mme. Ramet, Paris

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. 217-218, no. 81