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PROPERTY FROM THE PETER SCHEINMAN COLLECTION (another view)
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A RARE CARVED QINGBAI ARCHAISTIC TRIPOD CENSER, DING
SOUTHERN SONG-YUAN DYNASTY, 13TH-14TH CENTURY
The censer is raised on three ribbed legs surmounted by animal masks, and carved with
archaistic motifs reserved on combed bands on the sides and neck below a pair of angular
bail handles that rise from the everted rim, and is covered inside and out with a pale blue
glaze, except for a circular area in the center of the interior and the base.
5Ω in. (14 cm.) high
$15,000-25,000
PROVENANCE
Christie’s New York, 21 September 2004, lot 226.
Peter Scheinman (1932-2017) Collection, New York.
A qingbai tripod censer of larger size (17 cm. high) raised on similar tall legs surmounted by
animal masks and also with two small rectangular handles, but carved with a foral design,
was excavated in 1991 from a Southern Song hoard in Jingyu Village, Suining City, Sichuan
province, and is illustrated in China’s Jingdezhen Porcelain through the Ages, Beijing, 1998,
p. 103. Another qingbai tripod censer carved with the Eight Trigrams, excavated in 1964
at Jingdezhen, is now in the Jingdezhen City Museum Collection, and illustrated, op. cit,
p. 108. See, also, the pair of qingbai pear-shaped vases dated to the 13th-14th century
with phoenix-head handles which, like the present tripod censer, are carved with rather
eccentric interpretations of designs found on archaic bronzes, illustrated by R. Krahl,
Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 1, London, 1994, p. 332, no. 619.
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