Lot 15 宋　黑釉兔毫茶盞 | A BLACK-GLAZED 'HARE'S FUR' TEA BOWL

宋　黑釉兔毫茶盞 | A BLACK-GLAZED 'HARE'S FUR' TEA BOWL

Song Dynasty

HKD 60,000

HKD 60000 - 80000

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Song Dynasty
The deep-welled bowl with a short foot and a slightly indented mouth, covered in a black iron glaze with oxidised streaks thinning at the rim, together with a thickly modelled bowl stand, possibly Japanese, its circular hollow holder with deep curved sides supported on a flat saucer with an everted rim, raised on a tall spraying foot, enveloped overall in cinnabar lacquer, the interior of the foot inscribed in black with two kanji characters reading ryo and gen, Japanese wood box.
The bowl stand, 16cm (6 1/4in) diam.; the bowl, 12.2cm (4 3/4in) diam. (3).
Footnotes
宋　黑釉兔毫茶盞
連朱漆盞托
Tea bowls, such as the present lot, were particularly well suited to the preparation of whisked powdered tea, their dark iron-rich glazes providing a striking ground for the pale foam produced during whisking. The thickly applied glaze also helped retain the heat of the tea while reducing the transfer of heat to the exterior of the bowl. The celebrated appreciation of such vessels at the Song Court is recorded by Emperor Huizong (r. 1101–1125), whose Daguan chalun (大觀茶論), a treatise on tea, praised black-glazed Jian bowls decorated with the distinctive streaks known as 'hare's fur'. The association of Jian tea bowls with powdered tea continued beyond China, and examples are believed to have reached Japan during the Kamakura period (1185–1333), alongside the transmission of Zen Buddhism, where they became highly prized within the tea tradition.
Examples of comparable Jian bowls are in several major museum collections. See one, 12th/13th century, in the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, illustrated in , Cambridge MA, 1995, no.79; another in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in , Hong Kong, 1996, no.204; a bowl with a metal-bound rim in the Kyoto National Museum, illustrated in (Chinese Ceramics: Tenmoku), Tokyo, 1999, pl.39; and another bowl, also with a metal-bound rim, in the Meiyintang Collection, illustrated by R.Krahl, , London, 1994, no.530.
此類茶盞尤宜點茶。其深色鐵釉能為攪打茶湯時泛起之乳白茶沫提供鮮明襯底，厚施釉層亦具保溫之效，並可減少熱量外散。宋徽宗（1101–1125年在位）於《大觀茶論》中盛讚建盞，足見宮廷貴族對其之珍視。建盞與點茶之風亦東傳日本，鐮倉時期（1185–1333年）隨禪宗傳入，於茶道傳統中備受推崇。
可比對數件建窯兔毫盞，分藏於各大博物館：一件十二/十三世紀例藏於哈佛大學賽克勒博物館，見《Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400–600》，劍橋、麻省，1995年，編號79；一件藏北京故宮博物院，見《故宮博物院藏文物珍品全集：兩宋瓷器（下）》，香港，1996年，編號204；一件金屬鑲邊者藏京都國立博物館，見《中国の陶磁：天目》，東京，1999年，圖版39；另一件金屬鑲邊者則藏於玫茵堂，載於康蕊君，《玫茵堂中國陶瓷》，倫敦，1994年，編號530。