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A RARE QINGBAI CENSER 北宋 青白瓷行爐
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (960-1127) 展覽
The censer is potted with a flat everted mouth 香港大學美術博物館 ，《大繁若簡 - 宋金元朝的
and a u-shaped body rising from a pagoda-like 單色釉瓷》，2012 年，圖版 18 號
base. The upper section of the base is modelled
with a stylised chrysanthemum-form skirt. It is 此香爐外型穩重端莊，釉色精美，器型可追溯至
covered with a pale bluish-white glaze. 南北朝及唐代佛教壁畫中的鵲尾爐，可見於敦煌石
4æ in. (12.1 cm.) high, box 窟, 第172窟盛唐壁畫《日想觀》及現藏於大英博
物館的唐代佛教畫作《觀音菩薩圖》中，因其外型
HK$240,000-300,000 可固定平放或手持行走，因此又名行爐，為佛教徒
修持行香禮佛之用。器型至宋代，除去手柄後演變
US$31,000-39,000 成與現今所見的外形，在宋代各大窯場亦有生產。

東京國立博物館藏一外形相近的青白瓷香爐，刋於
EXHIBITED
University Museum and Art Gallery, The 大阪市立東洋陶磁美術館, 宋代之青白瓷展 1994,
University of Hong Kong, The Multiplicity of 圖 40.
Simplicity - Monochrome wares from the Song
to the Yuan dynasties, 2012, no. 18 另可參考一件相關的定窯白釉香爐，展於《玉貌
清明：故宮珍藏兩宋瓷器精品集》，澳門藝術博物
During the Song dynasty, burning incense
became a scholarly pursuit, and was practiced 館，2012年，展品43。
in small interior settings. Exquisite incense
burners, such as the present example, are
most suitable for use in a scholar’s studio.
In the Northern Song painting Tingqin tu in
the Palace Museum, Beijing, the main figure
sits next to a xiangji on which a small censer,
reminiscent of the present example, is seen
burning incense. According to some scholars,
this figure is probably Emperor Huizong
himself.
Compare a large qingbai censer of similar
form in the collection of the Tokyo National
Museum, illustrated in the Oriental Ceramics:
the World’s Great Collections, vol. 1: Tokyo
National Museum, Tokyo, 1982, no. 65.

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