Large tea bowl with everted rim

Object Details

• Description

  Glazed pottery conical bowl. Standing on a low foot ring, having curved sloping sides and wide everted lip rim. Coated inside and out with a thick glossy black with "hare's fur" outside of bowl ground down to body and an inscription applied in lacquer (one section of one character missing). The character cheng "regular" was incised into the clay underfoot before the bowl was fired.

• Inscriptions

  1.(F.J. Caro, 02/19/74) Inscription applied in lacquer reading "Made in the Great Sung during the years of Hsien-te".

• Collection

  Freer Study Collection

• Origin

  Fujian province, China

• Credit Line

  Gift of Mrs. James Plumer

• Type

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1100s, 1300s

• Place

  China, Fujian province

• Topic

  Tea, Art, Chinese Art, Southern Song dynasty (1127 - 1279), Ceramics, Northern Song dynasty (960 - 1127), Jian ware

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)