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A RARE LARGE ‘YAOZHOU’ CELADON 北宋 耀州窰青釉三足爐
TRIPOD INCENSE BURNER
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY 來源：
家適公司，香港，1990年以前
sturdily potted with a bombé body rising to a short constricted
neck and wide everted rim, the lower body bordered with 展覽：
two fillets, below a gently raised border to the upper body, all 《博古存珍：敏求精舍金禧紀念展》，香港藝術館，香港，
supported on three splayed legs decorated with a mythical 2010-11年，編號100
beast mask, the base centred with a recessed medallion,
applied with a translucent sage-green glaze suffused with a
network of fine crackles
22.1 cm, 8⅝ in.

PROVENANCE
Galaxie Company, Hong Kong, prior to 1990.

EXHIBITED

The Grandeur of Chinese Art Treasures: Min Chiu Society
Golden Jubilee Exhibition, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong
Kong, 2010-11, cat. no. 100.

HK$ 300,000-500,000
US$ 38,700-64,500

An incense burner of similar form and glaze, in the Shaanxi
Provincial Museum, Xian, is illustrated in Zhongguo taoci quanji
[Complete collection of Chinese ceramics], vol. 10: Yaozhou
Yao [Yaozhou kiln], Kyoto, 1985, vol. 70, pl. 49. Compare also
the incense burner from the Frederick M. Mayer Collection,
sold at Christie’s London, 24th June 1974, lot 39.

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