SONG DYNASTY (960-1279)

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A RARE YAOZHOU CELADON FIVE-LEGGED CENSER
SONG DYNASTY (960-1279)
The censer is of cylindrical form, with steep sides rising to a wide everted rim carved with floral scrolls, supported on five cabriole legs decorated with animal-masks.
3 5⁄8 in. (9.2 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

For a Yaozhou vessel of the same form, see one in the Yaozhou Kiln Sites Museum collection, illustrated in The Masterpieces of Yaozhou Ware, The Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, 1997, cat. no. 79, and another one with openwork design, also in the Yaozhou Kiln Sites Museum collection, illustrated in Complete Collection of Ceramic Art Unearthed in China, Shaanxi Volume, Beijing, 2008, no.146.

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