JIN DYNASTY (AD 265-420)

Reticulated Yue censers are very rare yet a few excavated examples have been published. A similar Yue censer, but with pyramidal, rather than crescent-form openings, excavated in 1974 from a tomb dated to the year 305 in Zhangwan, Dongfeng commune, Wuxi county, is in the collection of the Nanjing museum and illustrated in Complete Collection of Ceramic Art Unearthed in China, vol. 9, Beijing, 2008, no. 43, where several other yue examples were illustrated, nos. 54, 61, and 77.

The result of Oxford thermoluminescence test no. P122a26 is consistent with the dating of this lot.