Page 94 - Yamanaka co Auction catalog

160-CHUN-YAO INCENSE HOLDER (Sung)
Globular, on three archaic and rudimentary animal-head
feet; the wide mouth guarded by a metal rim. This piece
of heavy early pottery is coated with a beautiful bluish-
moonlight glaze-a clair-de-lame sifted over with the fairest
hue of the Persian turquoise-boldly and intricately
crackled, and flushed with fleeting mottlings of a dulled and
purpled red. The glaze covers both the exterior and the in-
terior of the vessels. On two sides of the shoulder, handles
rudimentary or vestigial appear in modeling beneath the
glaze. Teakwood cover, pierced in ju-i scepter-head form
and surmounted by the sitting figure of an arhat carved in
the round in mutton-fat jade, as a knob handle. Carved
teakwood stand. Diameter, 6% inches.