Bowl with Five Large Russet Splashes against a Subtle Hare's-Fur Ground, Jin dynasty, 12th-13th century. Northern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide. H. 7.9 x Diam. 20.1 cm (3 1/8 x 7 15/16 in.). Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Partial gift of Peter W. Scheinman and partial purchase through the Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for the Acquisition of Oriental Art, 2005.97 © President and Fellows of Harvard College. 

Provenance: Peter W. Scheinman purchased at Christie's, New York in September 2003 sale (Lot 243)
Formerly in the collection of Mr. and Mrs. James E. Breece III, Evanston, Illinois
Formerly in the collection of James Godfrey, Charlottesville, Virginia
Formerly in the collection of Jan Hellner Collection, Stockholm

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. 154-155, no. 47