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Lot Essay
A number of celadon censers of this size and shape are published, including several in renowned museum collections. Examples in the Tokyo National Museum and Percival David Foundation, London, are published in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, Tokyo, 1982, vol. 1, no.97 and vol. 6, no. 37, respectively. Others include the Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue Ice and Green Clouds: Traditions of Chinese Celadon, Indianapolis Museum of Art, p. 196, no. 79: The Baur Collection, illustrated by Ayers, in the Catalogue, vol. I, Geneva, 1972, no. A99; the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in the Illustrated Catalogue of Sung Dynasty Porcelain, Taipei, 1974, no. 12; and in the Cleveland Museum of Art, illustrated in the Catalogue of the Severance and Greta Millikin Collection, Cleveland, 1990, no. 6.