A Rare Cizhou Painted Censer
Northern Song dynasty, 11th century
The cylindrical cup raised on a waisted stem rising from a spreading pedestal foot and surmounted by a slightly curved, wide everted rim painted in brown on a white slip with five spiralled flowerheads separated by fern-like sprigs, all under a clear glaze
6 7/8in. (17.5cm.) across
Falk Collection no. 149.
來源
Walter Hochstadter, New York, January 1940.
拍品專文
Compare the censer of this shape with similar decoration from the Guantai kiln, Cixian, Hebei province, illustrated in Guantai Cizhou Yaozhi, Beijing, 1997, pl. XXI, 1.