incense-burner
- Museum number
- PDF,A.44
- Description
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Ru stoneware incense burner in form of Warring States or Han dynasty bronze or lacquer Lian, with cylindrical body, three cabriole legs, and three raised 'bow-string' lines around body. The incense burner has an ash-grey body covered in blue-grey glaze with fine crackle. There is a ring of five elliptical spur marks on the base, which is glazed.
- Production date
- 11thC(late)-12thC(early)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 248 millimetres
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Height: 153 millimetres
- Curator's comments
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Published PDF date : Northern Song early 12thC
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Room 95 label text:
PDF A44
Incense burner with three cabriole legs
This unusually large incense burner evokes antiquity through both its shape and glaze. Potters modelled the cylindrical body, cabriole legs and carved horizontal line decoration after antique bronze or lacquer food containers called 奩 (lian), made in the Warring States and Han dynasty period (475 BC–AD 220). The colour of the incense burner’s crackled grey-blue-green glaze conjures up the appearance of ancient jades. In AD1151, General Zhang Jun 張浚, a favoured official of the Southern Song Emperor Gaozong 宋高宗 (ruled AD 1127–62), presented the emperor with sixteen Ru ware ceramics, including a large and small censer. The gift may have included an incense burner like this one.
Stoneware with incised decoration and celadon glaze
Ru ware汝窯
Qingliangsi, Baofeng county, Henan province河南省,寳豐縣,清凉寺
Northern Song dynasty, about AD 1086–1125
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PDF A44
三足香爐
此爐器形頗大,異乎尋常,造型與釉色皆彰顯古意。筒身、彎腿、刻水平弦紋裝飾,為仿戰國至漢代(西元前475-西元220年)的青銅或漆食器奩製成。爐身灰藍綠呈色的開片釉使人聯想到古玉的質感。在1151年,宋高宗(1127-1162年在位)的寵臣大將張浚曾向其進貢了十六件汝窯器物,其中包括一大一小兩隻爐,也許作為禮品的爐正如此器(三足樽)。
炻器,劃弦紋,青釉
汝窯
河南省寶豐縣清涼寺
北宋,約1086-1125年
- Bibliographic references
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Pierson 1999 / Illustrated catalogue of Ru, Guan, Jun, Guangdong and Yixing wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (pp 63-64, no.A44)
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Yorke Hardy 1953 / Tung, Ju, Kuan, Chun, Kuang-tung & Glazed I-hsing Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (p.34, no.A44)
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Krahl & Harrison-Hall 2009 / Chinese Ceramics: Highlights of the Sir Percival David Collection (pp 28-29, no.6)
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Pierson 2002 / Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art: A Guide to the Collection (p.35, no.9 (left))
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Medley 1975 / Volume 7: Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (Monochrome pl. 23)
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- PDF,A.44