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VARIOUS PROPERTIES 3181

3180

A GUAN-TYPE TRIPOD CENSER A LONGQUAN CELADON CENSER

MING DYNASTY (1368-1644) MING DYNASTY, 15TH CENTURY

The vessel is heavily potted with a compressed body, upright neck The vessel is potted with a compressed form with a pair of stylised
and everted rim, with three narrow ribs beginning at the edge of fish-form handles. It is supported on a small straight foot. The
the shoulder and trailing down to each leg. The vessel is covered censer is covered overall in an olive-green glaze.
overall with the exception of the bottom of the feet in a crackle- 4 in. (10.3 cm.) high, Japanese wood box
suffused glaze of greyish-green tone that things on the ribs and rim.
9 Ω in. (24 cm.) wide HK$400,000-600,000 US$52,000-78,000

HK$120,000-180,000 US$16,000-23,000 PROVENANCE

Compare to an example of similar form, glaze colour and size (21 cm. Sekido Family (Sokaken) Collection, Nagoya
wide), sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 1 June 2016, lot 3310. A Japanese private collection, Nagoya, formed in the first half of
the 20th century

明 仿官鬲式爐 LITERATURE

可參考一件無論器型、釉色及大小 （21公分寬）均與本拍品非常相似的 Auction of the Sekido Family Collection, Nagoya Bijutsu Club,
例子，2016年6月1日於香港佳士得拍賣，拍品3310號。 1935, lot 181 (fig. 1)

The Japanese bronze cover accompanying this lot bears the signature
Nakagawa Joeki zo. (fig. 2) Nakagawa Joeki’s (10th generation (1880-
1940) family of metal artists has worked in Kyoto from the early Edo
period. The first generation, Nakagawa Yojuro (1559-1622), took the
name of Shoeki, and all of the succeeding generations the name Joeki.

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