J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
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Chinese Art from the Scholar’s Studio
March 13 - April 11, 2015
48.
A GREEN JUNYAO TRIPOD CENSER
Song Dynasty (960-1279)
of well potted globular form with short straight neck and wide everted rim, the rounded base raised on three bulbous feet, covered with an opaque olive green glaze with glossy surface, the glaze stopping short of the pointed toes of the feet and draining from the edge of the mouth rim revealing the stoneware body fired to tan brown.
Diameter 3 3⁄8 inches (8.6 cm)
Height 2 1⁄2 inches (6.2 cm)
Compare the very similar green Junyao censer discovered in 1990 in a Song dynasty tomb at Sanmenxia city, Henan province, now in the collection of Sanmenxia Museum, illustrated in Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji: Henan (Complete Collection of Ceramic Art Unearthed in China: Henan), Vol. 12, Beijing, 2008, p. 156, no. 156, described as made in the Shenhou kiln in Yuzhou, Henan province.
Two small blue-glazed Junyao censers of this form in the Beijing Palace Museum collection are illustrated in Jun ci ya ji: Gugong Bowuyuan zhencang ji chutu Junyao ciqi huicui (Selection of Jun Ware: the Palace Museum’s Collection and Archaeological Excavation), Beijing, 2013, pp. 87-90, nos. 27-28, attributed to the Northern Song-Jin period.
宋 綠鈞三足爐 徑 8.6 厘米 高 6.2 厘米
