A RARE CIZHOU-TYPE INCISED CENSER

NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY

Details

A RARE CIZHOU-TYPE INCISED CENSER
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY
The cylindrical cup raised on a flared pedestal foot and incised with a band of pendent petals, below a wide everted rim incised with a band of knobbed foliate scroll reserved on a stippled ground, the decoration incised through the white slip and highlighted with brown pigment beneath a transparent glaze
7 3/8 in. (18.7 cm.) across

Provenance

Acquired prior to 1978.

Exhibited

3500 Years of Chinese Art: Ceramics from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1987.

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Lot Essay

The decoration on the wide rim is similar to that found on the sides of a Cizhou censer of this type illustrated by Y. Mino and K. Tsiang, Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven Centuries in Northern China: Tz'u-chou Type Wares, 960-1600 A.D., Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1980, pp. 72-3, pl. 24.

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