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PROPERTY FROM THE LINYUSHANREN COLLECTION
1715
A LONGQUAN CELADON TRIPOD CENSER
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)
The compressed body has three narrow fanges formed by slip beginning at
the shoulder and trailing down each of the three slightly splayed, conical legs,
all below the cylindrical neck that rises to a fat, everted rim. The censer is
covered overall with a crackled glaze of rich blue-green tone that thins on the
fanges.
4æ in. (12.2 cm.) diam., Japanese lacquered box
$10,000-15,000

PROVENANCE
Private collection, Japan.
Sen Shu Tey, Tokyo.
EXHIBITED
Tokyo, Sen Shu Tey, The Collection of Chinese Art - Special Exhibition ‘Run
through 10 years’, 22 - 23 November 2006.
LITERATURE
Sen Shu Tey, The Collection of Chinese Art - Special Exhibition ‘Run through
(another view with box)
10 years’, Tokyo, 2006, p.60, no.72.
南宋 龍泉青釉三足爐

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