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A Chinese Jianyao hare's fur temmoku tea bowl, Song dynasty…
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Melbourne
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6-Nov-2016
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A Chinese Jianyao hare's fur temmoku tea bowl, Song dynasty (960-1279), the heavily potted conical bowl covered inside and out with a thick lustrous black-brown glaze, finely streaked with russet 'hare's fur' marking below the slightly everted russet-brown rim with trace of silver mount, and falling in an irregular line to the angle above the foot exposing the ware fired to a purplish-brown colour, 11.7 cm diameter, fitted box. Provenance: ex Collection of Ronald W Longsdorf, collection no. 1340, Private NSW collection
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Antiquities: Asian