An Extremely Rare Qingbai Censor, Song/Yuan dynasty raised o...

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An Extremely Rare Qingbai Censor, Song/Yuan dynasty raised on three claw legs surmounted by animal masks, carved with archaistic motifs reserved on meander and phoenix on the sides, a pair of rectangular handles rising from the everted rim, covered with a translucent blue glaze except for the interior and the base revealing the clean and white body

A Qingbai tripod censer of larger size (17 cm. high) raised on similar tall legs surmounted by animal masks and also with two small rectangular handles, but carved with a floral design, was excavated in 1991 from a Southern Song kiln site in Jingyu Village, Suining, Sichuan province, and is illustrated in China's Jingdezhen Porcelain through the Ages, Beijing, 1998, p. 103. Another Qingbai tripod censer carved with the Eight Trigrams, excavated in 1964 at Jingdezhen, is now in the Jingdezhen City Museum Collection, and illustrated, op. cit, p. 108. See, also, the pair of Qingbai pear-shaped vases dated to 13th/14th century with phoenix-head handles which, like the present tripod censer, are carved with rather eccentric interpretations of designs found on archaic bronzes, illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics form the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 1, London, 1994, p. 332, no. 619.

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Fair condition, two handles and feet restored