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PROPERTY FROM AN ASIAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
A RARE ‘DING’ CENSER AND COVER
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY
the rounded body supported on a domed pedestal foot carved
with four quatrefoil cut out panels, the cover carved with an
open work design of diaper leading up to a ß ower head, all
covered in an ivory coloured glaze, deepening to an olive tone
where it pools
(2)
15 cm, 6 in.
PROVENANCE
Collection of Frederick M. Mayer.
Christie’s London, 24th/25th June 1974, lot 34.
Collection of Walter Hochstadter.
Christie’s New York, 18th/19th March 2009, lot 510.
J.J. Lally & Co, Oriental Art, March 2010.

EXHIBITED
J. J. Lally & Co, Oriental Art, Chinese Ceramics in Black and
White, New York, 2010, cat. no. 17.
A related censer, excavated at Taiyuan city, Shanxi province,
and now in the Shangxi Provincial Museum, is illustrated
in Zhongguo taoci quanji/The Complete Works of Chinese
Ceramics, vol. 7, Shanghai, 2000, pl. 215. Compare another
censer of this type, the cover with similar cutouts but on a
di% erent foot, published in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics
from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. I, London, pl. 345.
Similarly pierced censers covered in a qingbai glaze are also
known to have been produced; see one included in Hsien-Ch’I
Tseng and Robert Paul Dart, The Charles B. Hoyt Collection in
the Museum of Fine Arts: Boston, vol. II, Boston, 1972, pl. 64.
಴ £ 80,000-120,000
HK$ 885,000-1,330,000 US$ 113,000-169,000

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