D: 12 cm
H: 7 cm

During Song Dynasty, the practice of whisking tea and competing tea (Tocha in Japanese when it became a trend in Japan) was greatly popular. The need for competing tea leads to the popularity of Jian ware. Song people’s standard for ceramics reached a peak, so the “hare’s fur” glazed “temmoku” ware (temmoku is a Japanese word adapted from Chinese, originally used by Song people for high quality Jian ware), with its stunning patterns coming from spontaneous transformation, came about. The bowl is conical shape, most famous in Jian ware, reminiscence of amboo hat (douli), with black glaze as the basic color. It is covered overall with a lustrous glaze, thinning at the rim with some short subtle russet streaks extending downwards, the glaze falling short of the foot to reveal the iron-black body, proving its identity of a Jianyang ware, as the black color is the characteristic result of the high iron content soil of Jianyang area.