Chinese pottery ash-glaze ‘Hill Censor’, Jin Dynasty, 3rd-4th century AD
$495.00 AUD
Unusual high-fired pottery Censor, of rounded form with conical lid, the base with broad spreading foot, the lid with impressed triangular patterns pierced to the interior, the whole glazed in a mottled ash glaze.
Western Jin Dynasty,
256-316 AD
Width:10 cm, 15.5cm high
Condition: Good display condition, signs of burial, glaze is decayed, cracks consolidated, with some infills.
Provenance: from an old Melbourne, Australia, collection.
The ‘Hill Censor’ is a metal form, popular in the Han Dynasty during the previous centuries. This version is simplified, with the triangular impressions giving it more of a ‘tree’ or pinecone look than the obvious mountain of the earlier forms.
The glaze is the typical Ash Glaze of the Western Jin Dynasty, 256-316 BC.
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