A SMALL PURPLE-SPLASHED JUNYAO TRIPOD CENSER

JIN-YUAN DYNASTY, 12TH-14TH CENTURY

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A SMALL PURPLE-SPLASHED JUNYAO TRIPOD CENSER
JIN-YUAN DYNASTY, 12TH-14TH CENTURY
The compressed body is raised on three cabriole legs, and is covered with an opaque glaze of pale milky blue color that thins to mushroom on the edges of the mouth rim, and is splashed on two sides with areas of pale purple color.
3 1/8 in. (8 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Mrs. Samuel T. Peters (1859-1943) Collection.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accessioned in 1926.

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Lot Essay

A similar Junyao tripod censer of comparable size is illustrated by J. Ayers, The Baur Collection, vol. I, Geneva, 1968, A 38. Another Junyao tripod censer of similar size, but without the purple splashes, was sold at Christie's New York, 15 September 2011, lot 1468.

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