A RARE LONGQUAN CELADON HAWK-FORM CENSER

MING DYNASTY, 15TH-16TH CENTURY

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A RARE LONGQUAN CELADON HAWK-FORM CENSER
MING DYNASTY, 15TH-16TH CENTURY
Heavily modelled as a hawk standing atop an openwork rock-form base, with head turned to the left and wings raised either side of the circular opening and cover in the center of the back, the beak partially open and the cover pierced for the release of smoke, detailed with carved feather markings and covered with a crackled sea-green glaze
11½ in. (29.2 cm.) high

Lot Essay

Other Longquan celadon-glazed censers in the form of birds include one in the form of a parrot, illustrated by J. Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, p. 499, no. 16:94; a crane-form censer formerly in the Dreyfus Collection included in the O.C.S. exhibition, The Animal in Chinese Art, London, 1968, no. 413; and one in the form of a duck, from the Henry Brown and Seligman Collections, was sold at Sotheby's, London, 25 March 1974, lot 33.

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