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Lot Essay
The present censer is of compressed globular shape, covered with an attractive pinkish-red glaze suffused with darker copper-red pin-prick mottling, stopping neatly around the slightly splayed foot ring and thinning to white at the mouth rim. The moulded lion-mask handles applied on either side of the body with a glaze ranging from pale-green to copper-green in tone.
The shape of this censer is inspired from examples made in bronze. Compare with a similar bronze example in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, collection number: gutong-002602N000000000 (fig. 1).
As one of the most difficult glazes to fire, the peachbloom glaze is more often applied to vessels displayed on scholar’s desk, such as the set from Jingguantang Collection, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 3 November 1996, lot 557, and was illustrated on the front cover. This censer may have been a precious object to delight a scholar’s table.
No other peachbloom-glazed censer appears to have been published, compare with a teadust-glazed censer bearing a Xianfeng mark in the Palace Museum, Beijing, collection number: xin00041169.
The shape of this censer is inspired from examples made in bronze. Compare with a similar bronze example in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, collection number: gutong-002602N000000000 (fig. 1).
As one of the most difficult glazes to fire, the peachbloom glaze is more often applied to vessels displayed on scholar’s desk, such as the set from Jingguantang Collection, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 3 November 1996, lot 557, and was illustrated on the front cover. This censer may have been a precious object to delight a scholar’s table.
No other peachbloom-glazed censer appears to have been published, compare with a teadust-glazed censer bearing a Xianfeng mark in the Palace Museum, Beijing, collection number: xin00041169.