Song Dynasty Tea Bowl With Brown Hare's Fur Markings

One of a kind tea bowl with indented lip and brown hare's fur markings. This tea bowl has a small circular foot, steeply pitched walls, and a lightly indented, vertical lip. Relatively thin at the mouth, the walls thicken as they descend, so that the bowl is surprisingly heavy for his size. The short foot has straight walls of intermediate thickness. Appearing black, a lustrous dark brown glaze covers the bowl inside and out, stopping thick welts at the angle above the foot. Although the dark glaze crawled away from the mouth in firing, a russet-brown slip neatly conceals the body clay; gravity pulled particles of the iron rich slip downward during firing, creating the brown hare's fur pattern on the glaze surface. The exposed body clay on the bowl's underside fired a purplish brown. The shape, dark body, black glaze, and hare's fur markings identify this bowl as a product of the Jianyao kilns in northern Fujian province. Please note photo colour might deviate slightly in comparision to the original artefact.

SIZE: Height: 7.1 cm. Diameter: 12.8 cm.