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Lot Essay
The censer is well potted with wide flaring mouth surmounting a cylindrical body raised on a high pagoda-like base. The body is carved with leaf-form motifs and covered with a soft celadon glaze.
In the Northern Song painting Tingqin Tu in the Palace Museum, Beijing, the main figure sits next to an incense stand xiangji, on which a small censer, similar to the present example, is seen burning incense. According to some scholars, this figure is probably the Northern Song Emperor Huizong himself, indicating that this type of incense burner was very popular during the Northern Song dynasty.
A similar Cizhou brown-glazed example of smaller size, from the Ronald W. Longsdorf Collection, was exhibited by J. J. Lally in Song Dynasty Ceramics: The Ronald W. Longsdorf Collection, 15 March – 13 April 2013, cat. no. 54. Compare also a qingbai censer of similar form, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, The Songde Tang Collection, 3 December 2021, lot 2809.
In the Northern Song painting Tingqin Tu in the Palace Museum, Beijing, the main figure sits next to an incense stand xiangji, on which a small censer, similar to the present example, is seen burning incense. According to some scholars, this figure is probably the Northern Song Emperor Huizong himself, indicating that this type of incense burner was very popular during the Northern Song dynasty.
A similar Cizhou brown-glazed example of smaller size, from the Ronald W. Longsdorf Collection, was exhibited by J. J. Lally in Song Dynasty Ceramics: The Ronald W. Longsdorf Collection, 15 March – 13 April 2013, cat. no. 54. Compare also a qingbai censer of similar form, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, The Songde Tang Collection, 3 December 2021, lot 2809.