A PEACHBLOOM-GLAZED TWO-HANDLED BOMBÉ CENSER

Details

A PEACHBLOOM-GLAZED TWO-HANDLED BOMBÉ CENSER
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD

Of elegant bombé shape, the glaze of pinkish tone suffused with fine, darker copper-red, pin-prick mottling throughout and some paler mushroom and copper-green areas mostly on the molded lion-mask handles, the glaze stopping neatly around the slightly spreading foot and thinning to white at the rim, some areas of copper-red blush to the rim interior (small glaze chip to foot)
5¼in. (13.2cm.) across

Provenance

Stephen Junkunc, III

Lot Essay

This censer takes its form from those made in bronze during the Ming and early Qing dynasties. A censer of this form covered on the exterior with a crackled pinkish-red glaze and with lion-mask handles left in the biscuit and dressed with a brown slip, is in the Eumorfopolous Collection, illustrated by R. L. Hobson in the Catalogue, vol. IV, London, 1927, pl. 42, no. E260