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Lot Essay
The crisply moulded boys that surround the stem of the lotus-form censer are an extremely rare decorative feature.
Compare with the mid-relief design of boys on a dingyao pillow in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession number: 47.1313, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World’s Great Collections, Vol.11, Tokyo, 1978, p. 147. A bronze square censer cast with boys flanking its sides and dated to the Song dynasty was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 28 May 2014, lot 3236.
Compare with the mid-relief design of boys on a dingyao pillow in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession number: 47.1313, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World’s Great Collections, Vol.11, Tokyo, 1978, p. 147. A bronze square censer cast with boys flanking its sides and dated to the Song dynasty was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 28 May 2014, lot 3236.