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A SMALL PURPLE-SPLASHED JUNYAO TRIPOD CENSER
JIN-YUAN DYNASTY, 12TH-14TH CENTURY
The compressed body is raised on three cabriole legs, and is covered with an
opaque glaze of pale milky blue color that thins to mushroom on the edges of the
mouth rim, and is splashed on two sides with areas of pale purple color.
3¿ in. (8 cm.) diam.
$15,000-25,000
PROVENANCE
Mrs. Samuel T. Peters (1859-1943) Collection.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accessioned in 1926.
A similar Junyao tripod censer of comparable size is illustrated by J. Ayers,
The Baur Collection, vol. I, Geneva, 1968, A 38. Another Junyao tripod censer
of similar size, but without the purple splashes, was sold at Christie’s New York,
15 September 2011, lot 1468.
金/元 鈞窯藍釉紫斑爐
來源
Samuel T. Peters 夫人（1859-1943）珍藏。
紐約大都會藝術博物館，入藏於1926年。
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