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A ZHEJIANG CELADON DUCK-FORM
2359 CENSER
MING DYNASTY, 15TH-16TH CENTURY
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The censer is modeled as a duck standing on
a wave-form base, with head turned to the
side, its overlapping wings and tufted tail,
detailed with carved feather markings, are
pierced for the release of smoke. The whole
is covered with a crackled bluish-green glaze.
8æ in. (22.4 cm.) high, Japanese wood box

$6,000-8,000

PROVENANCE:

Yamanaka Shokai, Japan.
Private collection, Japan, since the early 20th
century.

Novelty incense burners in the form of birds
were frst introduced in the Han dynasty and
enjoyed a fair amount of popularity in the Yuan,
Ming and Qing periods. A Longquan celadon
incense burner dated c. 1450-1550 in the
form of a duck standing on a rock and with a
removable wing made of gilt-bronze is illustrated
by J. Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British
Museum, London, 2001, p. 498, no. 16:93,
along with two other Longquan celadon bird-
form censers, one modeled as a pair of birds, the
other as a parrot, and a bronze bird-form censer
dated 12th-13th century, nos. 16:92, 16:94 and
16:92 (fg. 1), respectively.

明十五/十六世紀 浙江青釉鴨式爐

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
2359
A SMALL AUBERGINE-GLAZED RIBBED JAR
MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY

The rounded body is molded with narrowly
spaced vertical ribs below a short neck, and
covered in a mottled, aubergine glaze.
3æ in. (9.5 cm.) wide

$3,000-5,000

PROVENANCE:

J. Hellner Collection, Sweden.
Michael B. Weisbrod, Inc., New York.

EXHIBITED:

Weisbrod: Tenth Anniversary Exhibition,
Michael B. Weisbrod Gallery, New York,
1982.

LITERATURE:

L. Reidemeister, Ming Porzellane in
Schwedischen Sammlungen, Berlin, 1935, pl.
4b.
B. Gyllensvärd, Oriental Ceramics, The
World’s Great Collections, vol. 8, Stockholm,
1982, no. 253.
明十六世紀 茄皮紫釉菊瓣小罐