26 février 2020
A rare 'Longquan' celadon censer, Song dynasty (960-1279)
Lot 534. A rare 'Longquan' celadon censer, Song dynasty (960-1279); diameter 5 1/2 in., 14 cm. Estimate 60,000 — 80,000 USD. Lot sold 104,500 USD. Courtesy Sotheby's.
the cylindrical body with straight sides rising to a flat, inward canted rim, the body decorated with three raised triple filet bands and raised on three ruyi-shaped feet, covered on the inside and exterior with a crackled, luminous glaze of blue-green tone thinning to a pale tone at the edges, the unglazed edge of the tapering footrim on the underside revealing the body burnt russet-orange in the firing.
Provenance: Christie's New York, 19th September 1999, lot 303.
Sotheby's. Harmony of Form, Serenity of Color: A Private Collection of 'Song' Ceramics, New York, 23 march 2011
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