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860 A RARE AND LARGE YAOZHOU 北宋 金ǭ十Հ世紀ǭ
CELADON TRIPOD CENSER 耀州窯青釉印花龍紋雙耳Ӳ足‐
NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY, 12TH CENTURY
The compressed censer is raised on three paw-form feet Ϝ源
surmounted by animal masks, and is decorated with a continuous 藍理捷
紐約
編號
band of six molded archaistic dragon motifs separated by plain
flanges, all below a short waisted neck interrupted by a pair of A similar Yaozhou censer, with molded as opposed to flat flanges,
angular bail handles that rise from the wide everted rim. The in the Shaanxi History Museum, is illustrated in The Masterpieces
censer is covered on the exterior and the interior of the rim with of Yaozhou Ware, Osaka, 1997, p. 82, no. 104, where it was dated
a pale green glaze continuing over the rounded base. to the Jin dynasty. The same censer was previously illustrated by
W. Watson in The Genius of China: An Exhibition of Archaeological
9¿ in. (23.2 cm.) high, cloth box
finds of the People’s Republic of China, London, 1973, p. 151, no. 337.
$50,000-70,000 See, also, the large Yaozhou celadon censer of very similar form,
but lacking handles, formerly in the Collection of E.G. Kostolani,
PROVENANCE:
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 1774. W. W. Winkworth and F. M. Mayer, illustrated by P. Dubosc in
Mostra d’Arte Cinese: Settimo Centenario di Marco Polo, Venice, 1954,
p. 121, no. 416, and illustrated again by J. Cahill in The Art of
Southern Sung China, New York, 1962, no. 41.

(another view)

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