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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION
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A LONGQUAN CELADON TRIPOD CENSER 重要私人珍藏
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)
南宋 龍泉青釉三足爐
The compressed body is raised on three short feet and has a flat everted rim,
來源:
with three narrow flanges beginning at a slight ridge on the shoulder and
trailing down each leg. The censer is covered overall with a sea-green glaze 暫得樓胡惠春(1911-1995) 珍藏
of even tone. 出版:
5 in. (12.7 cm.) diam., cloth box Helen D. Ling及仇焱之, 《暫得樓珍藏歷代名瓷影譜》, 卷一, 香港, 1950年, 編號
24
$60,000-80,000
PROVENANCE:
The J. M. Hu (1911-1995), Zande Lou Collection.
LITERATURE:
Helen D. Ling and Edward T. Chow, Collection of Chinese Ceramics from
the Pavilion of Ephemeral Attainment, vol. I, Hong Kong, 1950, no. 24.
The shape of this censer, based on that of the ancient bronze ritual food
vessel, li, was produced from the Southern Song into the Yuan period for
the domestic as well as the export market. The numerous tripod censers
retrieved from the Sinan shipwreck provide evidence that this shape was
much sought after in Japan, the original destination of the ship's cargo, and
where they have since been widely collected.
The thick, translucent glaze is typical of this type of Southern Song
Longquan ware, as is the lack of any decoration other than the flanges. A
number of Longquan celadon censers of the same shape are published,
including several in renowned museum collections. Examples in the Tokyo
National Museum and Percival David Foundation, London, are published
in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, Tokyo, 1982, vol. 1, no.
97, and vol. 6, no. 37, respectively. Other comparable censers include the
example illustrated by J. Ayers, The Baur Collection: Chinese Ceramics, vol.
I, Geneva, 1972, no. A99; and the censer in the National Palace Museum,
Taiwan, included in the Illustrated Catalogue of Sung Dynasty Porcelain,
Taipei, 1974, no. 12. A larger example (19.7 cm. diam.), found in 1991 in
Jinyu village of Nanqiong, Suining city, Sichuan province, is illustrated
in Longquan Celadon: The Sichuan Museum Collection, Macau, 1998, pp.
(label on box)
210-11, no. 83.

The present censer illustrated by H. D. Ling and E. T. Chow in Collection of Chinese Ceramics from the Pavilion of Ephemeral Attainment, vol. I, Hong Kong, 1950, no. 24.
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