SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)

For a similar Jian tea bowl from the Havemeyer Collection, now in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, see S. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, p. 115, no. 110. See, also, a slightly larger Jian tea bowl from the Falk Collection, illustrated by R. Mowry in Hare’s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers, Cambridge, 1996, pp. 217-18, no. 81, and subsequently sold at Christie's New York, 20 September 2001, lot 91.