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These are genuine examples.

 



The Song Emperor Huizong wrote : “Tea bowls should be deep and relatively wide at the bottom. If the bottom is deep, then it is easy to mix the tea so that it appears milky white; if it is wide, then it is easy to whip the tea.”



Taiwan Museum



Metropolitan Museum of Art

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So such as these, widely available on the internet................?

 




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Much too shallow to be tea bowls, but could they be Song dynasty all the same? (See next page).

 

And such as this?

The overall shape is right.

 





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And such as these, said to be from a shipwreck.






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There was a very good exhibition  ''Hare''s Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown- and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400'', which opened at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery at Harvard in December 1995, travelling to the China Institute Gallery in New York and Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison. The catalogue is the first of its kind in English  and is an enormously useful resource.

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Some tips on determing authenticity of this type of pottery>>>