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3103 㬌☐䁢⹟䅁㛅⭖⺟㔯㇧䓐☐ˤ⹟䅁ᶨ㛅炻↉㔯㇧䓐☐⣂ẍ⮲
␥⎵炻⤪⣒䘥⮲ˣ楔巬⮲⌛䁢㯜䙪炻暁映⮲⮎䁢剙☐炻㬌暁
A VERY RARE CLAIR-DE-LUNE GLAZED 漵俛⮲⇯䁢楁忻䓐⑩炻℞ℑ“層梦暁漵俛墅梦桐㟤炻冯⎴㗪
CENSER, ZUN 㛇䤷⺢⽟⊾䩗䘥䒟䋭俛䆸䚠⎴炻味⚈㘗⽟捖⽉䩗⺈㓡㖻䁢漵
俛ẍ栗䣢⭖⺟䘯⭞幓ấˤ
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF
THE PERIOD (1662-1722) 冯ᶲ徘⎴㛇㔯㇧䓐☐䚠庫炻㬌☐⼊䚠⮵份夳ˤ䲸䲬Ἓ⢓⼿
㕤2008⸜9㚰17㖍㚦㉵岋ᶨẞ⣑啵慱ἳ⫸炻夳㉵⑩248嘇炷
The censer is elegantly potted with a broad pear-shaped body
flanked by a pair of moulded stylised dragon handles, and covered 炸ˤᶲ㴟⌂䈑棐⇯啷㚱ᶨẞ☐⼊冯㛔㉵⑩䚠⎴䘬䘥慱漵椾
overall under an even soft sky-blue glaze shading to a slightly 俛⮲炻⍫侫˪ᶲ㴟⌂䈑棐啷⹟䅁䒟⚾抬˫炻1998⸜炻枩346炻
darker tone around the foot rim. The base is covered with a ⚾231ˤ
transparent glaze.
4 ¡ in. (11.3 cm.) wide, stand, box ⮲ℏ⢾㺧㕥⣑啵慱炻慱刚䲼㬋炻䁢⹟䅁㛅柷刚慱䍵份⑩栆ˤ
⸽句曺剙⹟䅁ℕ⫿ᶱ埴㫦炻冯寯寮䲭慱⣒䘥⮲ˣ掄搤㲿ˣ⌘
HK$3,000,000-5,000,000 US$390,000-650,000 㲍䙺媠⑩炻㫦⺷䚠栆炻䁢⹟䅁㛅⮹夳䘬⭖⺟㔯㇧⑩栆ˤ

The present censer is closely related to a group of vessels made for
the scholar’s desk during the Kangxi period. Examples from this group
include washers, water pots, seal paste boxes and vases. See for
example, a set of eight differently-shaped peachbloom glazed vessels
in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated by S. Valenstine,
A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, p. 238.

Censers such as the present example are extremely rare amongst this
group, and appear to have been made only in clair-de-lune or white
glazes. Compare to a nearly identical clair-de-lune glazed censer sold
at Christie’s New York, 17 September 2008, lot 248 (fig. 1), and a
white-glazed example in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated in Kangxi
Porcelain Wares from the Shanghai Museum Collection, Hong Kong,
1998, no. 231.

detail fig. 1

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