A GUAN-TYPE TRIPOD CENSER
A GUAN-TYPE TRIPOD CENSER

MING DYNASTY (1368-1644)

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A GUAN-TYPE TRIPOD CENSER
MING DYNASTY (1368-1644)
The vessel is heavily potted with a compressed body, upright neck and everted rim, with three narrow ribs beginning at the edge of the shoulder and trailing down to each leg. The vessel is covered overall with the exception of the bottom of the feet in a crackle-suffused glaze of greyish-green tone that things on the ribs and rim.
9 ½ in. (24 cm.) wide

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Compare to an example of similar form, glaze colour and size (21 cm. wide), sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 1 June 2016, lot 3310.

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