A Jian silver-streaked 'hare's fur' temmoku bowl, Southern Song dynasty 南宋 建窰銀兔毫黑釉天目茶盞

While rust-brown ‘hare’s fur’ streaks are most characteristic ‘Jian’ ware tea bowls, those with silvery streaks as on the present bowl are rarer to find. With its sparkling glaze interspersed with metallic silvery to coppery steaks, the present bowl is a fine example of nogime temmoku bowls.

A wide range of different temmoku bowls is published in Tōbutsu temmoku [Import commodity ‘temmoku’], Chadō Shiryōkan, Kyoto, 1994, including some of the finest examples preserved in Japan as well as bowls excavated in Fujian province. Compare a closely related example from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, included in the exhibition Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown- and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Cambridge, 1995, cat. no. 83.

建盞黑釉耀眼，釉色變化多樣，窰燒時，釉裡氣泡爆裂，流釉成絲絲細紋，稱之兔毫（日文「禾目」）。褐釉兔毫可說最具代表性，銀兔毫釉則較為罕見，二者之間可見無數種釉色變化，決定建盞之價值與魅力。此件銀兔毫茶盞釉色亮澤，金銅色細毫隱隱閃耀銀光，乃禾目茶盞中精品。

《唐物天目》，茶道資料館，京都，1994年，收錄一系列天目盞，包括數件日本國寶及福建出土作例，紐約大都會美術博物館藏一近例，曾展於《Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers. Chinese Brown- and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400》，哈佛藝術博物館，劍橋，馬薩諸塞州，1995年，編號83。