Song dynasty (960-1279)The bowl is potted with rounded sides raised on a short rim, covered with a lustrous black glaze decorated with russet 'hare's fur' stripes and with reddish russet tending towards pale green stripes, stopping above the foot ending in a thick drop. Diam. 8 cmProvenance:- E.W. Hendriks Oriental Art, Amsterdam (1996)- Collection Drs. Koos de Jong, AmsterdamCompare:- M. Tregear, La Céramique Song, Fribourg 1982, pp. 188-189, figs. 258-259- [exhib.cat.] Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers. Chinese brown- and black-glaze ceramics, 400-1400 (ed. R.D. Mowry), Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge (MA) 1996, no. 38 a-b, p. 143- [brochure] Priestley & Ferraro, London 2008, p. 4 - [exhib.cat.] Fire & Earth Chinesische Frühkeramik, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Köln 2008, no. 166, p. 207