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A PURPLE-SPLASHED JUNYAO TRIPOD CENSER

JIN-YUAN DYNASTY, 13TH-14TH CENTURY

The censer has a compressed globular body supported on three
cabriole legs, and a pair of rounded handles surmounted by upright
angular loops and is covered overall with a fnely mottled, milky blue
glaze that thins to mushroom on the rim and is accented with bluish-
purple splashes on the exterior and interior.
5¿ in. (13 cm.) diam.

$20,000-30,000

PROVENANCE

Mrs. Samuel T. Peters (1859-1943) Collection.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accessioned in 1926.

EXHIBITED

Japan Society, at the Galleries of M. Knoedler & Co., Chinese, Corean
and Japanese Potteries: Descriptive Catalogue of Loan Exhibition of Selected
Examples, New York, 2-21 March 1914, p. 74, no. 259.

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。

展覽
日本協會，紐約 M. Knoedler & Co. 畫廊，《Chinese, Corean and Japanese
Potteries: Descriptive Catalogue of Loan Exhibition of Selected Examples》
，1914年3月2日至21日，74頁，編號259。

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