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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED COLLECTION
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A JUNYAO TRIPOD CENSER
NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY (AD 960-1234)
The censer has a compressed globular body raised on three cabriole legs, and a tall cylindrical neck that
rises to the everted, dished rim, and is covered overall with a glaze of milky blue color that thins on the
edges of the rim and tops of the legs.
3√ in. (9.8 cm.) high, box
$8,000-12,000
PROVENANCE
Samuel T. Peters (1859-1943) Collection (according to label).
Arthur M. Sackler (1913-1987) Collections.
Else Sackler (1913-2000) Collection, and thence by descent from within the family.
EXHIBITED
New York, Columbia University, Columbia University Exhibition, February 1965.
Jerusalem, Israel Museum, 3500 Years of Chinese Art: Ceramics from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections,
1987.
Compare the junyao tripod censer of similar shape and slightly larger size (12 cm. high) illustrated by
J. Ayers, The Baur Collection, vol. I, Geneva, 1968, No. A 35.
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