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Censer with five legs
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Incense burner in the form of a basin with flat, everted lip supported on five palmette-form legs, each modeled at top with an animal head, all resting on a low ring-form base; white earthenware with variegated lead-fluxed copper-green and iron-brown glazes on the exterior of the basin and legs. Sancai ware. From northern China, Henan, Hebei, or Shaanxi province.
Department of Asian Art
Stephen Junkunc III Chicago IL (by 1978). Private collection (by 1996) sold; through [Christie's New York 28 March 1996 lot 316]; to [Chinese Porcelain Company New York (1996-1999)] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation Woodside CA (1999-2006) partial gift; to Harvard University Art Museums 2006.
Notes:
1. Stephen Junkunc III (d. 1978)
2. On long-term loan to Harvard University Art Museums from 1999 to 2006.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Partial gift of the Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation and partial purchase through the Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund
Title: Censer with five legs
Description:
Incense burner in the form of a basin with flat, everted lip supported on five palmette-form legs, each modeled at top with an animal head, all resting on a low ring-form base; white earthenware with variegated lead-fluxed copper-green and iron-brown glazes on the exterior of the basin and legs.
Sancai ware.
From northern China, Henan, Hebei, or Shaanxi province.
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