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from the Tang through the Qing; this censer and Bronzes, numbers 67,71-72.
the previous jar, by contrast, represent the revival 3. See Percival David Foundation, Imperial Taste,
of forms that had not been seen, let alone pro- 54-55, number 27; Medley, The Chinese Potter, 179, fig-
duced, since the Tang or Five Dynasties. ure 131; Mikami, RydKin Gen, 62-63, numbers 49-51.
5. See Xuande yiqi tupu, volume 2, juan 13, 2-3, 4. Percival David Foundation, Imperial Taste, 55.
both recto. 5. See, for example, Garner, Oriental Blue and
6. See Xuande yiqi tupu, volume 2, juan 13,4 recto. White, plate 47.
7. See Mowry, Handbook, 52, number 1979.109; 6. Sato and Ayers, Shin, 15, number 4.
Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, 38, 7. See Robert D. Mowry, 'Chinese Ceramics' in
number 39. Jeffrey H. Munger and others, The Forsyth Wickes
8. See Kelley, Chinese Gold and Silver, 80, num- Collection in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,
ber 48; Gyllensvard, Chinese Gold and Silver, 148- Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1992,292, number 264.
149, number 96; Gyllensvard, Chinese Gold, Silver 8. See Beurdeley and Raindre, Qing Porcelain,
and Porcelain, 49, number 44. 106, number 152.
9. Spherical censers with openwork designs con- 9. See Watt, Chinese Jades, 209, number 210.
tinued to be produced into the Song; for a Song 10. See Watt and Ford, East Asian Lacquer, 110-11,
example in bronze with reticulated designs of number 45.
boys playing amidst floral scrolls, see J.J. Lally and
Company, compiler, Arts of Ancient China, New 38
York: J.J. Lally and Company, 1990, number 34.
10. See Watson,Tang and Liao Ceramics, 256, num- 1. Buddhist paintings and woodblock-printed illus-
ber 306; Gyllensvard, Chinese Gold, Silver and Porce- trations from the Tang and Northern Song periods
lain, 95, number 89. often show altars furnished with a censer flanked
11. SeeThomas Lawton, Chinese Art of the Warring by two offering bowls laden with fruit or with brass
States Period: Change and Continuity, 480-222 BC, balls probably intended to represent cintamani
Washington DC: Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian (Chinese, ruyi baozhu), talismanic jewels that sym-
Institution, 1982, 86, number 40. bolize transcendent wisdom and that are said to
be capable of granting every wish.
2. See
36 Chugoku Machida International Print Museum,
kodai
be
noted
It should
hanga ten,
251.
1. See Pope and others, The Freer Chinese Bronzes, that, in using both red and black inks, this illustra-
volume 1, 597, number 118. tion to a Yuan-dynasty Commentary on the Diamond
2. See Okazaki, Chugoku kodai, 212, number 197. Sutra (Jingangjing zhu) is the world's earliest known
3. See Hasebe, So, 76-78, number 67-69; 89, num- example of color printing.
ber 81; 206, numbers 202-03; Kuo, Born of Earth and 3. See Machida International Print Museum,
Fire, 87, number 68; Ministry of Culture and Informa- Chugoku kodai hanga ten, 251; Shanghai Museum
tion, Sinan haejo yumul, 109-10, numbers 139 a-b. facsimile edition of a Chenghua-period wood-
4. See Joint Board of Directors of the National block-reprint of Xinbian shuochang Bao Long tu
Palace Museum and National Central Museum com- gongan duanwai wupen zhuan, not paginated but
piler, Blue-and-White Ware of the Ming Dynasty, lower illustration on the front side of the thirtieth
Hong Kong: Cafa, 1963, volume 2, parti, 34-37, num- page, and Shanghai Museum facsimile edition of a
bers 7-8. Chenghua-period woodblock-reprint of Quanxiang
5. See Beurdeley and Raindre, Qing Porcelain, 75, shuochang Shiguan Shouqi Liu Dusai shangyuan
plate 105; Li Yihua, Gugong zhencang Kang Yong shiwu ye kandeng zhuan, not paginated but upper
Qian ciqi tulu, 117, numberlOO; Lady David, Illustrat- illustration on the front side of the twenty-second
ed Catalogue ofCh'ing Enamelled Ware, 10, number page, volumes 5 and 9, respectively,in Ming Chenghua
811; 13, number 819; plates 1, number 811; 2, 819. shuochang cihua congkan: Shiliu zhong fu baitu ji
6. See Li Yihua, Gugong zhencang Kang Yong chuanqi yi zhong, Shanghai: Shanghaishiwenwu
Qian ciqi tulu, 53, number 36. baoguan weiyuanhui and Shanghai bowuguan,1973.
7. See Zhou Lili, 'Ciqi bajixiangwen xintan', 328, 4. See Zhongguo Diyi Lishi Danganguan (Chinese
number 43; 332, top row of diagram. First Historical Archives) compiler, Qingdai diwang
8. Chase, Ancient Chinese Bronze Art, 28. lingqin (The Imperial Mausoleums of the Qing
Dynasty), Beijing: Dangan chubanshe, 1982, 12, 33,
37 65; Gugong bowuyuan (The Palace Museum) and
Publishers),
Zhongguo lyou chubanshe (ChinaTravel
1. See Goedhuis, Chinese and Japanese Bronzes, compiler, Zijincheng dihou shenghuo (Imperial Life
number 71. The Clague vase is published: Sydney in the Forbidden City), Beijing: Zhongguo lyou
L. Moss Ltd, The Second Bronze Age, number 68. chubanshe, 1983,113.
2. Large bronze ding-shaped censers are known, 5. Zhang Guangyuan, 'Dingxingqi di fangwei yu
some measuring more than eighteen inches in height. mingwen weizhi di guanxi,' 67-87.
See, for example, Goedhuis, Chinese and Japanese 6. See Delbanco, Art from Ritual, 107, number 41.
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