Lot 329
  • 329

A FINE 'DEHUA' ARCHAISTIC CENSER QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD |

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description

  • Width across handles 4 1/2  in., 11.4 cm
the gui-form body sweeping to an everted rim and set to either side with an elegant yoke-form handle, all supported on a low, splayed foot, covered overall with an unctuous, creamy-white glaze, pierced wood cover with a jadeite finial (2), coll. no. 149

Provenance

Gerard Hawthorn, London, 2001.

Condition

The censer is in good overall condition. The wood cover is zitan.
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Catalogue Note

The present censer derives its inspiration from famous Song dynasty Longquan and Guan ware ceramic examples which in turn reference archaic bronze vessels. Here the stylized fish-form handles have been abstracted but the outline is unmistakable. During the 17th and 18th century, bronze censers of the same form enjoyed popularity as well. For a bronze example and a discussion on the evolution of the form see China's Renaissance in Bronze, The Robert H. Clague Collection of Later Chinese Bronzes 1100-1900, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, 1993, cat. no. 15. A similar Dehua censer is illustrated in P. J. Donnelly, Blanc de Chine, New York, 1968, pl. 11C.