Measurements: Length: 12.5 cm, Height: 7 cm

Chinese Song Dynasty Jian Ware Tea Bowl. Potted with a shallow body, slight deep, thick and bulbous body, with angled cavetto elevated the steep sides upward the flaring mouth rim, raised on a small round. Jian Kiln is a type of Chinese pottery originally made in Jianyang, Fujian province. The ware are simple shapes with a strong emphasis on subtle effects in the glazes. In the Song dynasty they achieved a high prestige, especially among Buddhist monks and in relation to tea-drinking. Though the ceramic body is light-colored, the wares, generally small cups for tea, bowls and vases, normally are glazed in dark colors, with special effects such as the hare's fur , oil-spot and partridge feather patterns caused randomly as excess iron in the glaze is forced out during firing.The underside unglazed, revealed the pale-creme ground revealed and dark greyish brown spotted firing marks and edge-cut foot rim.

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