北宋 定窰白釉鏤雕花卉紋薰爐

the rounded body supported on a domed pedestal foot carved with four quatrefoil cut out panels, the cover carved with an open work design of diaper leading up to a flower head, all covered in an ivory coloured glaze, deepening to an olive tone where it pools

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倫敦佳士得1974年6月24至25日， 編號34
Walter Hochstadter 收藏
紐約佳士得2009年18至19日， 編號510
JJ Lally & Co., 紐約， 2010年3月

《Chinese Ceramics in Black and White》， J. J. Lally & Co， 紐約，2010年，編號17

There is over spraying to disguise a Y-shaped crack that runs from the rim down to and around the top of the base. There is a 5.5cm long crack running upward from the rim of the cover. There are also some vertical and diagonal glaze cracks to cover, body and base.
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比較一例，山西太原出土，現藏於山西博物館，圖見《中國陶瓷全集》，卷7，上海，2000年，圖版215。另比一例，爐蓋帶相近鏤雕，載於康蕊君，《玫茵堂中國陶瓷》，卷1，倫敦，圖版345。 此外亦可比較一例青白釉，其一載於Hsien-Ch’I Tseng 及 Robert Paul Dart，《The Charles B. Hoyt Collection in the Museum of Fine Arts: Boston》，卷2，波士頓，1972年，圖版64。