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ANOTHER PROPERTY
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A VERY UNUSUAL CIZHOU-TYPE PAINTED TRIPOD CENSER
JIN-YUAN DYNASTY, 12TH-14TH CENTURY
The bulbous body is raised on three lion-mask supports and
decorated in shades of brown on a white slip under an ivory-toned
transparent glaze on each side with a shaped panel, one enclosing
a rabbit, the other a foliate design below the key fret-carved neck
fanked by a pair of large carp-form handles.
6 in. (15.2 cm.) high, Japanese wood box, reticulated silver cover
$6,000-8,000
EXHIBITED
Sumoto City Awaji Museum, March - May 1988.
Kashihara City History Museum, Osaka, Asian Ceramics, 16 October -
30 November 1988.
金/元 磁州系白地彩繪玉兔圖魚耳三足爐
(another view)
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