A RARE GLAZED WHITE WARE CENSER AND COVER

NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 10TH-11TH CENTURY

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A RARE GLAZED WHITE WARE CENSER AND COVER
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 10TH-11TH CENTURY
The hemispherical body raised on a domed pedestal foot with spreading rim and with four quatrefoil cutouts, the domed cover cut with two different diaper patterns leading up to a flower head surrounding the central circular aperture, the exterior and interior of the cover covered in a clear glaze of slightly greyish-olive tone where it pools
6 in. (15 cm.) high, box

Provenance

Acquired in Shanghai, late 1950s to early 1960s.

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Lot Essay

Compare the censer and cover of this type, with different foot but similar cutouts, dated to the Northern Song dynasty, 10th or 11th century, Hebei area, illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 1, London, 1994, p. 197, no. 345. See, also, another example of this type illustrated in the Catalogue of the Memorial Exhibition of The Charles B. Hoyt Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1952, p. 95, no. 378, where it is described as being of ying ch'ing type.

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