{"type":"artobject","objectid":19547,"objectnumber":"y1934-45","sortnumber":"1934   45y","displaytitle":"Tea bowl with hare's-fur markings","department":"Asian Art","classification":"Ceramic","datebegin":1200,"dateend":1299,"datecomputed":1250,"daterange":"A.D. 1000-1500","displaydate":"13th century","medium":"Jian ware, stoneware with dark brown glaze and iron oxide markings","dimensions":"5.7 x diam. 11.7 cm. (2 1/4 x 4 5/8 in.)","dimensionsproposed":"","creditline":"Gift of DuBois Schanck Morris, Class of 1893 ","markings":null,"inscribed":null,"signed":null,"catalograisonne":null,"creditlinerepro":null,"restrictions":null,"nowebuse":"False","secondaryobjectnumber":null,"campuscollections":"false","on_view":false,"accessionyear":"1934-01-01","newaccession":0,"titles":[{"title":"Tea bowl with hare's-fur markings","titletype":"Primary Title","displayorder":1}],"makers":[],"depicted":[],"texts":[{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Description","textentryhtml":"<P>Conical shaped tea bowl with body rising to a slightly finger-grooved rim.&nbsp; Glaze covering the interior and most of exterior where it runs down leaving the knife-cut foot, base and lower section exposed with characteristic dark purplish-brown body.&nbsp; Mouth rim is covered in the thin reddish brown remainder of the russet glaze that has drained from the thick formed rim.&nbsp;</P>\r\n<P>The Jian kilns were active at Shuiji, near Jianyang, in northern Fujian province.&nbsp; They were known for hare's-fur dark glaze ware that were \"intended for local domestic use, and must have found a place in most households, and it was used locally in the Ch'an Buddhist monasteries, because this was how the Japanese came to acquire so many examples\" (Margaret Medley, <EM>The Chinese Potter</EM>, p. 162).&nbsp; According to Robert Mowry, <EM>Hare's Fur, Tortoishell, and Partridge Feathers</EM>, p. 30: \"The Jian kilns initially produced humble wares for a local market; their tea bowl's rise to prominence parallels the rise of Fujianese tea,\" which was a frothy, whisked milk-white beverage that looked its best in dark bowls.&nbsp; Jian ware is characterized by hard, coarse grained, slate gray clay that usually fires purplish brown, covered inside and two thirds of outside with a thick iron oxide glaze, and thinly glazed lip.&nbsp; Bowls were fired in saggars, stacked one on top of the other, each bowl raised on a small fireclay button to raise it off the bottom.</P>","remarks":"as per object file"},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"1898 - ca. 1926 acquired in China by DuBois Schanck Morris (based in Anhui, China), 1934&nbsp;gift&nbsp;of DuBois Schanck Morris (New York, NY) to the Princeton University Art Museum.","remarks":null}],"media":[{"id":56179,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/INV023848","isprimary":1,"rank":1,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"Inventory Project"}],"hasimage":"true","bibliography":[],"exhibitions":[{"exhibitionid":1574,"citation":"Chigusa and the Art of Tea in Japan (October 11, 2014–February 01, 2015)","isvirtual":true,"begindate":"2014-10-11","enddate":"2015-02-01","uri":"https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/art/exhibitions/1574"}],"geography":[{"displaygeography":"Place made: Asia, China, Fujian Province","code":"Place made","continent":"Asia","subcontinent":null,"country":"China","region":null,"state":"Fujian Province","city":null,"county":null,"subregion":null,"locale":null,"locus":null,"river":null,"excavation":null,"geoname":"http://www.geonames.org/1811017/fujian-sheng.html","location":{"lat":"","lon":""}}],"terms":[{"id":2049167,"term":"ceramics","aatid":300151343,"termtype":"Classification"},{"id":2033355,"term":"Chinese","aatid":300018322,"termtype":"Culture"},{"id":2033550,"term":"Song","aatid":300018427,"termtype":"Period / Style"},{"id":2033707,"term":"Chinese ceramics styles","aatid":300018504,"termtype":"Classification"},{"id":2073090,"term":"bowls (vessels)","aatid":300203596,"termtype":"Classification"},{"id":2168031,"term":"glaze","aatid":300015091,"termtype":"Materials"},{"id":2049308,"term":"stoneware","aatid":300010672,"termtype":"Materials"},{"id":2166471,"term":"jian","aatid":null,"termtype":"Materials"}],"classifications":[{"id":2073090,"classification":"bowls (vessels)"},{"id":2049167,"classification":"ceramics"},{"id":2033707,"classification":"chinese ceramics styles"}],"cultures":[{"id":13592,"culture":"Chinese","alphasort":"Chinese","begindate":0,"enddate":0,"displayculture":"Chinese","displaydate":null}],"cultureterms":[{"id":2033355,"culture":"Chinese"}],"periods":[{"id":12555,"period":"Song dynasty","alphasort":"Song dynasty","begindate":960,"enddate":1279,"displayperiod":"Song dynasty, 960–1279","displaydate":"960–1279"}],"periodterms":[{"id":2033550,"period":"Song"}],"attribute_groups":[{"id":2199319,"term":"Asian Art","termtype":"Collecting Area"}],"dimensionelements":[{"element":"Overall","type":"Height","units":"centimeters","dimension":"5.70"},{"element":"Overall","type":"diam.","units":"centimeters","dimension":"11.70"}],"packages":[{"packageid":210143,"name":"2022_ART574_03_04"},{"packageid":210146,"name":"2022_ART574_04_01"},{"packageid":210142,"name":"2022_ART574_02_18"}],"primaryimage":["https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/INV023848"],"displaymaker":null,"displayculture":"Chinese","displayperiod":"Song dynasty, 960–1279","caption":"Chinese, Song dynasty (960–1279), Tea bowl with hare's-fur markings, 13th century. 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