Tea Bowl (960– 1279): Art, History and Details
Tea Bowl at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 960– 1279, brown stoneware with iron slip glaze, Jian ware. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Tea Bowl (960– 1279) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the 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.
Object facts
- Title: Tea Bowl
- Date: 960– 1279
- Culture: China, Fujian province, Song dynasty (960-1279)
- Type: Ceramic
- Technique: brown stoneware with iron slip glaze, Jian ware
- Dimensions: Diameter: 12.4 cm (4 7/8 in.); Overall: 4.8 cm (1 7/8 in.)
- Collection: China - Song Dynasty
- Department: Chinese Art
- Accession number: 1956.703
A detail from the museum
Jian ware was very popular with the tea cultures in China and Japan.
Collection credit
The Fanny Tewksbury King Collection
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See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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