Lot Essay
Compare a smaller Junyao blue-glazed censer of similar form illustrated by J. Ayers, The Baur Collection, vol. I, Geneva, 1968, A 38. Other Junyao blue-glazed censers of similar form are illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. I, London, 1994, p. 222, no. 391; and J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics: The Koger Collection, London, 1985, p. 53, no. 30.