Page 55 - Sotheby's Fine Chinese Art November, 2018 Hong Kong.

375
A CARVED LONGQUAN CELADON TRIPOD
INCENSE BURNER
EARLY MING DYNASTY

the compressed body rising from three splayed cylindrical
legs to a constricted neck and everted rim set with two upright
loop handles, the body deftly carved with floral sprays below a
classic scroll at the rim, covered overall save for the tips of the
legs with a rich sea-green glaze, wood stand
9.5 cm, 3¾ in.
PROVENANCE
A Japanese private collection.
HK$ 100,000-150,000
US$ 12,800-19,200
明初 龍泉青釉刻花紋朝天耳三足爐
來源：
日本私人收藏

375

376

A LONGQUAN CELADON ‘TOAD’ INCENSE
BURNER AND COVER
MING DYNASTY
the censer and the cover modelled as a three-legged toad
perched on a larger toad, the cover with an opening through
the toad’s mouth, Japanese box
14 cm, 5½ in.
PROVENANCE
A Japanese private collection.

HK$ 50,000-70,000
US$ 6,400-9,000
Other zoomorphic and figural Longquan vessels include
a Ming-dynasty goose-form incense burner in the British
Museum, London (inv. no. OA 1938.5-24.10), illustrated in
Jessica Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Museum,
London, 2001, cat. no. 16:92; a phoenix-shaped incense burner
in the Idemitsu Museum, included in Idemitsu Bijutsukan
zhin zuroku. Chugoku toji/Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu
Collection, vol. 3, Tokyo, 1987, no, 796; and a Yuan-dynasty
water dropper modelled in the form of a boy riding on a
buffalo, excavated from Taishun County in 1983, illustrated in
Zhu Boqian, ed., Celadons from Longquan Kilns, Taipei, 1998,
p. 242, no. 226.

明 龍泉青釉金蟾式蓋爐
376
來源：
日本私人收藏
CHINESE ART 53