A Rare Jizhou Brown-Painted Circular Censer

SOUTHERN SONG/YUAN DYNASTY

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A Rare Jizhou Brown-Painted Circular Censer
Southern Song/Yuan Dynasty
The slightly bulbous deep body raised on four compressed supports and painted in brown on a cream ground with eight roundels, each encircling one of the Eight Trigrams and reserved on a wave ground within linear and decorative borders, the slightly canted mouth rim painted with a band of foliate scroll, all under a clear glaze
8.5/8in. (22cm.) diam.

拍品專文

It is unusual to find a jizhou vessel decorated with trigrams, although the wave-pattern ground, key pattern and knobbed scroll bands are common motifs on painted examples of this ware. A jizhou censer of similar form, but smaller, decorated with stylized overlapping leaves, is illustrated in An Exhibition of Chinese Ceramics from the Shanghai Museum, Japan, 1984, p. 83, no.54; and another decorated with lotus and key pattern bands, is illustrated by Feng Xian Ming in Zhongguo gutaoci lunwen ji (Essays on Chinese Old Ceramics), Hong Kong, 1987, p. 340, no. 4.