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Tea Bowl
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About this work
This tea bowl's coarse brown stoneware body was first covered with a thick, blue-black glaze. It was mottled with reddish-brown slip, whose pattern of streaks and spots are affectionately termed "hare's fur" among connoisseurs.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineTea Bowl, 960– 1279. China, Fujian province, Song dynasty (960-1279). Brown stoneware with iron slip glaze, Jian ware; diameter: 12.4 cm (4 7/8 in.); overall: 4.8 cm (1 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Fanny Tewksbury King Collection, 1956.703
