A ‘LONGQUAN’ CELADON TRIPOD CENSER, YUAN TO MING DYNASTY China, 1279 - 1644. The compressed body raised on three slightly splayed conical supports and surmounted by a cylindrical neck rising to a broad everted rim, with three narrow tapering flanges starting at a ridge on the shoulder and trailing down each leg. Covered overall with a soft blue-green glaze pooling in thick drops at the bottom to expose the fine grayish ware.

Provenance: A noted British private collector, acquired from a European collection.
Condition: Good condition with old wear, a tiny chip and fritting to the mouth rim as well as some firing flaws. Traces of use.

Weight: 769.3 kg
Dimensions: Height 11 cm, Width 14 cm (at the widest points)

Incense burners of this tripod form were produced at the Longquan kilns during both the Southern Song and the Yuan periods, and subsequently well into the Ming era. See P. Hughes-Stanton and Rose Kerr, Kiln Sites of Ancient China, London, 1980, pp. 20 and 125, no. 97. They have been excavated from widely scattered sites in China from Jining in Inner Mongolia in the north (see Wenwu, 1979:8, pl. VI, no. 3), to the Song port at Dongmenkou, Ningbo in the southeast (see Zhejiang sheng wenwu kaogusuo xuekan, Beijing, 1981, pl. XI, no. 5), and Sichuan in the west, where a similar vessel was unearthed at Jinyu village, Nanqiang, Suining in 1991 (see Longquan Celadon - The Sichuan Museum Collection, Macau, 1998, pp. 210-11, no. 83).

元明時期龍泉窯青釉三足爐
中國，1279 – 1644年。鬲式爐，扳口寬折沿，短粗頸扁腹下收，底微下凹，腹下承三素面足，足底露醬色胎，肩腹部與三足外側有棱線凸起，通體施龍泉青釉。

來源：英國知名私人收藏，購於一歐洲藏家處。
品相：狀況良好，磨損，邊沿有一個磕損和熔結，還有一些燒製瑕疵，有使用痕跡。

重量: 769.3 公斤
尺寸：高 11 厘米, 寬14 厘米 (最寬處)