NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY, 12TH CENTURY

A similar Yaozhou censer, with molded as opposed to flat flanges, in the Shaanxi History Museum, is illustrated in The Masterpieces of Yaozhou Ware, Osaka, 1997, p. 82, no. 104, where it was dated to the Jin dynasty. The same censer was previously illustrated by W. Watson in The Genius of China: An Exhibition of Archaeological finds of the People’s Republic of China, London, 1973, p. 151, no. 337. See, also, the large Yaozhou celadon censer of very similar form, but lacking handles, formerly in the Collection of E.G. Kostolani, W. W. Winkworth and F. M. Mayer, illustrated by P. Dubosc in Mostra d’Arte Cinese: Settimo Centenario di Marco Polo, Venice, 1954, p. 121, no. 416, and illustrated again by J. Cahill in The Art of Southern Sung China, New York, 1962, no. 41.