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A LARGE JUNYAO TRIPOD INCENSE BURNER Jin Dynasty
15 May 2025, 10:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £32,000 inc. premium
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A LARGE JUNYAO TRIPOD INCENSE BURNER
Jin Dynasty
Sturdily potted, the globular body rising from three short, curving legs to a constricted neck and everted mouth, applied overall save for the feet with a pale sky-blue glaze suffused with faint craquelure, thinning to a mushroom-grey tone on the edge of the rim, Japanese wood box and cover. 14.6cm (5 3/4in) high (3).
Sturdily potted, the globular body rising from three short, curving legs to a constricted neck and everted mouth, applied overall save for the feet with a pale sky-blue glaze suffused with faint craquelure, thinning to a mushroom-grey tone on the edge of the rim, Japanese wood box and cover. 14.6cm (5 3/4in) high (3).
Footnotes
金 鈞窯青釉三足爐
Provenance:
Eskenazi Ltd., London
Emmanuel Christofides (1928-2020), Athens and London, acquired from the above on 12 February 1986
Published and Illustrated:
D.Priestley and M.Flacks, A Life in the Company of Song Ceramics, London, 2017, pp.44-45, no.16
來源：
倫敦古董商埃斯卡納齊
Emmanuel Christofides (1928-2020)，雅典和倫敦，於1986年2月12日從上處獲得
著錄：
D.Priestley和M.Flacks，《A Life in the Company of Song Ceramics》，倫敦，2017年，第44-45頁，編號16
While most kilns produced a wide variety of ceramic items, certain kilns became renowned for excelling in specific types of wares. The Jun kilns, for instance, were celebrated for crafting pieces that combined beauty with durability, such as basins, offering dishes, and incense burners such as the present lot. This incense burner, probably filled with fine sand to hold incense sticks, would have been placed on a temple altar or, more precariously, on a nearby stand. This example is particularly striking due to its generous size, harmonious proportions, and exceptional milky-blue glaze, thickly bubbled and applied over the entire surface, leaving only the square-section feet unglazed at the tips.
See a similar large Junyao tripod incense burner, Northern Song dynasty, in the British Museum, illustrated by S.Pierson, Illustrated Catalogue of Ru, Guan, Jun, Guangdong and Yixing wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, 1999, London, p.50, no.95.
Compare also with a related large Junyao incense burner, Song/Yuan dynasty, which was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 28 November 2019, lot 414.