KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

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A RARE LAVENDER-BLUE CRACKLE-GLAZED TRIPOD CENSER
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
The deep censer of bombé-form is raised on three short legs and rises to the slightly flaring rim, and is applied with two 'C'-scroll handles. The exterior is covered with a pale lavender-blue glaze suffused with a network of black crackles, which thins slightly around the rim and stops neatly around the concave base. The interior is covered with a finely-crackled pale-grey glaze.
6 1/4 in. (15.8 cm.) across handles, hardwood cover and stand, cloth box

Provenance

Christie's London, 15 May 2007, lot 250.
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4374.

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Lot Essay

The lavender-blue crackled glaze seen on this censer is rare. For a Kangxi-period bottle vase covered with the same lavender-blue crackled glaze in the Freer Gallery of Art see Oriental Ceramics: The World’s Great Collections, vol. 9, The Freer Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., New York, 1981, col. pl. 23, pp. 167-168.

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