Description: A Yueyao Censer
Jin Dynasty (1115-1234)
Stoneware globular incense burner on three feet standing in a tripod basin. The basin, slightly distorted in the firing, has an everted rim, two incised decorative lines around the exterior, and feline animal faces on the three feet. The latter are carefully moulded with feet protruding from their toothy carnivorous mouths. The cabriole feet of the censer itself are not in animal form. Its upper half is reticulated with three bands of incised triangles each separated by vertically incised lines. Substituting for one of the lower triangles is a step-shaped orifice surmounted by two small circular decorations. At the top of the censer are four circular holes around a small cylinder in which sits a bird with a long tail, a heavy bill, a prominent crest and with its wings spread. This is probably a phoenix rather than a chicken. The whole piece is covered with a celadon glaze which has trickled down in places.
It has been suggested that this piece came from Tibet.
晋朝(1115-1234)鸡头香炉
D160mm H190mm