A RU-TYPE TRIPOD CENSER OF 'FISH BASKET' FORM

QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A RU-TYPE TRIPOD CENSER OF 'FISH BASKET' FORM
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The censer is of compressed form supported by three short feet below a band of twelve bosses. The waisted neck rises to a flaring mouth flanked by two lug-handles to the shoulder, and is covered all over with an attractive crackled greyish-blue glaze stopping at the tip of the feet.
7 ? in. (20 cm.) wide

Provenance

E. T. Hall Collection, no. 78

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Lot Essay

A censer of this rare 'fish basket' shape with a Qianlong mark, but covered in a robin's egg glaze, is illustrated in Catalogue of a Special Exhibition of Ch'ing Dynasty Monochrome Porcelains in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1992, p. 93, no. 52. Another described as having a guan-type glaze is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Monochrome Porcelain (Beijing), Hong Kong, 1999, p. 231, pl. 209.

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