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A RU-TYPE CENSER While the elegant crackled glaze on this censer was
QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND PERIOD developed in imitation of the celebrated glazes made at the
Ru kilns in Ruzhou, modern Baofeng county, Henan province,
of compressed circular form, resting on three short feet during the Northern Song dynasty (960-1127), the form of
below a band of twelve bosses, the waisted neck rising to
a flared mouth, the shoulder set with two lug-handles, and this censer, which is commonly referred to as yu lou (“fish
covered all over with an attractive crackled lavender-blue basket”), appears to be a Yongzheng period innovation.
glaze stopping at the tip of the feet, the base inscribed with Compare a Yongzheng mark and period censer of this
form, but covered in a teadust glaze, in the Palace Museum,
a six-character seal mark in underglaze blue
20 cm, 7⅞ in. Beijing, illustrated in Geng Baochang ed., Gugong Bowuyuan
cang Qingdai yuyao ciqi [Porcelains from the Qing dynasty
PROVENANCE imperial kilns in the Palace Museum collection], Beijing,
2005, vol. 1, pt. 2, pl. 13.
E.T. Hall collection, no. 078 (according to label).
Christie’s London, 7th June 2014, lot 286. A Qianlong mark and period censer of this form, similarly
covered in a Ru-type glaze, is illustrated in Geng Baochang,
£ 40,000-60,000 Ming Qing ciqi jianding [Appraisal of Ming and Qing
HK$ 411,000-620,000 US$ 52,500-79,000 porcelain], Hong Kong, 1993, pl. 456; a guan-type censer in
the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in The Complete
清乾隆 仿汝釉雙繫魚簍尊 Collections of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Monochrome
《大清乾隆年製》款 Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 209; and two censers from
the Zande Lou collection were included in the exhibition Qing
Imperial Monochromes. The Zande Lou Collection, Shanghai
來源 Museum, Shanghai, 2005, cat. no. 31.
E.T. Hall 收藏，編號078（標籤）
倫敦佳士得2014年6月7日，編號286

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