Tea bowl

Ceramics
China

Materials:

Stoneware

Technique:

Jian 建 style brownish-black glazed stoneware 黑釉磁

Date:

Song dynasty (960-1279)

Size:

Diam. 12 cm

Place of origin:

China, Fujian, Jianyang kilns?

Description:

Jian ware bowl with iridescent markings conical, with a slight constriction below the rim, which is bound in a ring of silver; the sides pared round the foot. Coarse brown stoneware with a heavy, lustrous glaze of black streaked with fine brown markings inside and outside, and gathering in a thick roll above the foot. In reflected light the glaze reveals a striking blusih-green surface iridescence patterned with crackle lines.

Inventory number:

CB CC 1930 63

Copyright:

Fondation Baur

Photographer:

Marian Gérard