A rare Chinese Junyao censer

Jin dynasty (1115-1234)
The cylindrical sides raised on a short ring-shaped foot, covered with a thick opaque glaze of a pale blue tone thinning to mushroom at the rim, the interior left unglazed and the glaze stopping short above the foot, revealing the sand-coloured buff.
Diam. 10.7 cm

Provenance:
- Robert Mc Pherson, London (2000)
- Collection Drs. Koos de Jong, Amsterdam

Compare:
R. Schmidt, Chinesische Keramik von der Han-zeit bis zum XIX. Jahrhundert, Frankfurt am Main 1924, p. 41, ill. 48f

Note:
The unglazed interior reveals the function of this object: to burn incense.