Cleveland Museum of Art
Tea Bowl
- Date
- 1100s–1200s
- Medium
- Stoneware with black “hare’s fur” glaze and metal-bound rim, Jian ware
- Culture
- China, Fujian province, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279)
- Department
- Chinese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 125978
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Due to its exceptional size, this Fujian tea bowl is rather rare. The enjoyment of Jian ware rests with the glaze transmutation due to iron in the glaze, which developed into reddish-brown streaks and spots against a rich black glaze after firing. Connoisseurs called these iron formations "hare’s fur" marks, and the ware was very popular with the tea cultures in China and Japan. The reddish-brown streaks and spots have been affectionately termed "hare's fur" among connoisseurs.
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- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Provenance
- ?–1948: (Dikran G. Kelekian [1867–1951], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1948–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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