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An unusual Longquan celadon pierced censer or vessel stand
Yuan or Early Ming Dynasty, 14/15th CenturyThe lower section of bombe shape and pierced with five linked oval shaped apertures dividing five carved palmette-leaf-form legs on a spreading circular foot and below a waisted rim with pie-crust edge below a conical cylindrical spreading neck with three rows of hexagonal piercings, fitted with a later copper pricket. 4 1/2in (11.4cm) high (without copper pricket)
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元/明早期 十四/十五世紀 龍泉青釉鏤雕香爐/燭台For another example of a stand similar in decoration to ours and of bombe shape see Priestley and Ferraro, London, at www.priestleyandferraro, inv. no. 968, where the authors note that this type of object became popular during the fourteenth century, was used as a stand for a type of slender-based, high-mouthed vase called in Chinese a 'ji character' vase, after the shape of the character ji, meaning 'good fortune'. They cite two examples of stands related to their example supporting such vases, see Zhu Boqian, Celadons from Longquan Kiln, Yishujia Chubanshe, Taipei, 1998, pp. 192,193, nos. 165 and 166; and for a larger example in the Topkapi Saray, Istanbul, see Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, A Complete Catalogue, I, Yuan and Ming Dynasty Celadon Wares, Sotheby's Publications, London 1986, no. 542. For a near identical (complete) vessel, though dated to the 15th/16th century, see Christie's, New York, 25 March 2011, lot 1648, where it is noted that openwork Longquan celadon vessels of this type are very rare. A very similar Longquan celadon example, illustrated by J. Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, pp. 474-5, no. 16:34, where it is dated c. 1450-1550, is also cited. Finally two others of the same (complete) form, one without the pierced decoration, the other with some only in the upper section are also cited by Harrison-Hall, op. cit., the first in the Eisei Bunko, Japan, the other in the Itsuo Bijitsukan, Japan.Our example, with its more conical pierced upper-section suggests that it may not have followed the exact shape of the Christie's example and may well have been a more truncated type.
