Auction 165 Part 1 Antiques & Objets d’Art - Part I
Mar 30, 2017 (Your local time)
Israel

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LOT 286:

A RARE ’JIAN’ ’HARE’S FUR’ ’TEMMOKU’ TEA BOWL
Song Dynasty, 10-12th century. Applied with a ...

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Song Dynasty, 10-12th century. Applied with a lustrous and iridescent black glaze terminating at the rim with ’hare’s fur’ streaks. 12.8 cm diameter. Provenance: Japanese collection, including a wooden box. During the Song dynasty Japanese monks travelled to China to study Buddhism where they first encountered some of these black glazed tea bowls. By the 13th century, tea bowls became highly prized and large quantities were imported to Japan for use in the tea ceremony. White tea was dried, ground to a fine powder and whipped in a bowl to produce a frothy white drink that the monks thought looked better in the black glazed tea bowls. Temmoku takes its name from the Tianmu Mountain temple in China where iron-glazed bowls were used for tea.

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