YUAN-EARLY MING DYNASTY, LATE 14TH-EARLY 15TH CENTURY

The shape of this censer originates from archaic bronze lian vessels from the Han dynasty (206 BC - AD 220). Ceramic vessels of this form are often molded with bow-strings around the body. A Longquan tripod censer of closely related form, also decorated with two raised lines, in the collection of the Sichuan Provincial Museum, is illustrated in Longquan Celadon: The Sichuan Museum Collection, Macao, 1998, pp. 146-47, no. 47. See, also, an example with triple bow-string bands from the Linyushanren Collection, sold at Christie's New York, 22 March 2018, lot 527.