Lot 99. A 'Yaozhou' pale celadon censer, Jin dynasty (1115-1234). Height 6 in., 15.2 cm. Estimate 80,000 - 120,000 USD. Lot sol 245,000 USD. Photo: Sotheby's.

of compressed globular form with a slightly tapered neck and broad everted rim, supported on three splayed legs issuing from lion-masks and terminating in paw feet, crisply molded to form three pairs of confronting bird marks divided by vertical notched flanges above the legs, covered overall with a pale celadon-green glaze. 

PROVENANCE:  The du Boulay Collection, no. P266.
Mathias Komor, New York, 22nd December 1952.

Christie's New York, 30th November 1983, lot 334.
Georges de Batz Collection.

EXHIBITED: Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Exhibition of Chinese Ceramics and European Drawings from the Georges de Batz Collection, 1953, no. 77.
Ashmolean Museum, Iron in the Fire, Oxford, 1988, no. 22. 

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art. New York | 19 mars 2013