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Lot 183
A LONGQUAN CELADON TRIPOD CENSER
Estimated Value:
1.500 € - 2.500 €
Result:
incl. Premium and VAT
Description:
China, Southern Song/ Yuan dynasty, 13th c.D. 13,8 cm/ H. 8,3 cm
The cylindrical body is encircled withbow-string bands, supported by cabriole feet and a short foot ring. It is covered overall except th unglazed stand with a rich bluish-green glaze that thins slightly on the rim and the raised decoration.
Collection Herta Jaeger, Bietigheim near Stuttgart, assembled according to her in Asia in the 1960’s and sold 3.12.1981 for DM 1100.- to the Klemm collection, Nagold (invoice preserved)
The shape of the current censer originates from archaic bronze lian vessels from the Han dynasty (206 BC - AD 220). Ceramic vessels of this form are often molded with bow-strings around the body, such as the well-known Northern Song Ru censer in in Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol. 12, Tokyo, 1977, p. 70, no. 62. A similarLongquan tripod censer, in the collection of the Hangzhou Archaeological Bureau, is illustrated by Zhu Boqian (ed.), Celadons from Longquan Kilns, Taipei, 1998, p. 149, no. 116. A small Longquan censer of similar form was discovered in 1991 in Suining, Sichuan province, amongst a cache of ceramics dating from the late Southern Song period, and is illustrated in Newly Discovered Southern Song Ceramics, A Thirteenth-Century “Time Capsule”, Tokyo, 1998, p. 32, no. 23 - Short restored crack from the rim into the body, unglazed stand slightly chipped, glaze slightly corroded
