The deep conical sides raised on a short cylindrical foot, covered with a lustrous black glaze finely streaked with russet 'hare's fur' stripes, thickening to a reddish-russet tone at the mouth rim and stopping short in thick drops above the foot, the mouth rim mounted with a metal band. 

Provenance: - Auction Sotheby’s, Amsterdam, 22 October 1996, lot 364 
- Collection Drs. Koos de Jong, Amsterdam.
 
Compare: - R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Vol. I, London 1994, no. 530, p. 285
- R. Kerr, Song Ceramics, V&A Museum, London 2004, no. 115, p. 113
- [exhib.cat.] Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers. Chinese brown- and black-glaze ceramics, 400-1400 (ed. R.D. Mowry), Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge (MA) 1996, no. 76, p. 205
-[cat.] Feuer und Erde. Chinesische Frühkeramik, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Keulen 2008, no. 171, p. 212.
 
Art d'Asie comprenant la collection du Drs Koos de Jong - Partie 1 chez AAG (Arts & Antiques Group), Amsterdam, le 05 Novembre 2018 à 14h00.