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A SMALL GUAN-TYPE TRIPOD CENSER
YUAN - MING DYNASTY
Diameter 2¾ in., 7 cm
PROVENANCE
Alice Boney, New York.
Collection of Dr. John Fong (Ji Zhen Zhai Collection), 1988.
EXHIBITED
Treasures of the Chinese Scholar, University of Pennsylvania
Museum of Archeaology and Anthropology, Philadelphia,
1997.

$ 5,000-7,000
元至明 官窰式三足小爐
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來源
愛麗絲•龐耐，紐約
集珍齋收藏，1988年
展覽
《Treasures of the Chinese Scholar》，賓州大學考古學
及人類學博物館，費城，1997年

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A ‘JUN’ GREEN-GLAZED TRIPOD CENSER 744
YUAN DYNASTY
Diameter 4¾ in., 12.1 cm A GUAN-TYPE WATERPOT 元至明 官窰式三足水盂
YUAN - MING DYNASTY
PROVENANCE Height 2⅝ in., 6.7 cm 來源
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Jones. 通運公司，紐約
R&G McPherson Antiques, London. PROVENANCE Cyrus (1903-1999) 及 Mildred (1903-1997) Churchill
Tonying & Company, New York. 伉儷收藏
Agreen Jun incense burner described as Jin or Yuan, 13th or Collection of Cyrus (1903-1999) and Mildred (1903-1997) 雍穆堂收藏
14th century is illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics Churchill.
from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 1, London, 1994, pl. The Concordia House Collection. 上拍於紐約蘇富比2007年3月19日，編號134
389.Another green Jun censer of the same form and size, Offered at Sotheby’s New York, 19th March 2007, lot 134.
discovered in 1990 in a Song dynasty tomb at Sanmenxia
city, Henan province, now in the collection of Sanmenxia This charming desk object with its unctuous crackle glaze
Museum, is illustrated in Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji: Henan references the Guan glaze so admired in the Southern Song
/ Complete Collection of Ceramic Art Unearthed in China: dynasty (1127-1279).It would have been used together with a
Henan, vol. 12, Beijing, 2008, pl. 156, and described as tubular dropper to be dipped in the water, its opening closed
originating from the Shenhou kiln in Yuzhou, Henan province. with a finger to draw water out, and released onto the ink
stone as necessary. For a Song dynasty example preserved
$ 4,000-6,000 with its tubular droppers, see a Guan bud-form waterpot
from the Eli Lilly Collection in the Indianapolis Museum of
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元 鈞窰青釉三足爐 Art, included in the exhibition Beauty and Tranquility: The Eli
Lilly Collection of Chinese Art, Indianapolis Museum of Art,
Indianapolis, 1983, fig. 6. Compare also a related Guan-type
來源 Longquan waterpot with a stopper, sold in these rooms,
Guy Jones 伉儷收藏 17th March 2015, lot 183.
R&G McPherson Antiques，倫敦
$ 3,000-5,000
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