Lot 224
The lobed body supported on three slightly splayed legs, the shoulder with a horizontal rib intersecting vertical flanges associated with the mouth rim stimulating the form of a blooming mallow, rising to a short neck and an everted rim, applied throughout with an unctuous sea-green glaze thinning to a pale green at the ridges, the bottom of each leg left unglazed revealing the pale ware burnt russet-orange in the firing. With a Japanese mother-of-pearl inlaid red lacquer rounded inner box and a red lacquer square outer box.
The present incense burner, elegantly modelled with an undulating mouth rim to simulate the form of a blooming mallow, is highly unusual. Mallow shape is not uncommon on bowls and dishes, but it is extremely rare to find it on an incense burner. The exquisite bluish-green kinuta glaze as seen on the present vessel was particularly valued in Japan, where the incense ceremony kodo plays a highly important role.
A very similar censer please see Bonhams Hong Kong, 29/05/2023, lot 308. A Ge ware tripod incense burner with a similar barbed rim and sides, published in Ge ci ya ji. Gugong Bowuyuan zhencang ji chutu Geyao cigi huicui [Selection of Ge Ware. The Palace Museum Collection and Archaeological Discoveries], Palace Museum, Beijing, 2017, pl. 108.
南宋 龍泉青釉菱花三足香爐
源流：
傳山中商會庫藏，附山中商會庫藏印箋及大漆嵌螺鈿內盒，褐漆桐木外盒。
9.1cm diameter; 7.8cm high
Estimate $5,000 - $7,000
Overall in good condition.
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Ex-Collection of Yamanaka & Co. (by repute).
An important private collection, Tokyo.
Fine Chinese and Asian Art
AUCTION
Sale: LJ8763
11:00am - 2 March 2025
Hawthorn
VIEWING
Thurs 27 Feb - Sat 1 Mar, 10am - 4pm
2 Oxley Rd, Hawthorn VIC
CONTACT
Luke Guan
asianart@leonardjoel.com.au
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