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Lot Essay
The present censer is very rare for its small size, making it ideal for scholars to place beside a qin for leisurely appreciation.
The censer has additional moulded taotie masks on the feet, which is rarely found on Longquan wares of this period. For a Southern Song Longquan tripod censer of similar form and decoration but of larger size, see an example sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, Chinese Ceramics from the Yangdetang Collection, 30 November 2016, lot 3132. Compare to another Longquan censer of the same form but without mask decorations, housed in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Songci Tezhan Mulu, Taipei, 1978, no.13.
The censer has additional moulded taotie masks on the feet, which is rarely found on Longquan wares of this period. For a Southern Song Longquan tripod censer of similar form and decoration but of larger size, see an example sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, Chinese Ceramics from the Yangdetang Collection, 30 November 2016, lot 3132. Compare to another Longquan censer of the same form but without mask decorations, housed in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Songci Tezhan Mulu, Taipei, 1978, no.13.