A large Longquan celadon-glazed tripod incense burner, early Ming dynasty.
The thickly potted censer standing on three cabriole-shaped legs with everted rim and a gently sloping neck tapering to a rounded belly, the base pierced with a circular aperture, three spur marks on the interior, the vessel covered overall with a thick and glossy celadon glaze, the feet and a circle at the bottom left unglazed.
Height 17 cm, diameter 18 cm.
Provenance:
From an important private collection in The Netherlands, acquired in China before 1950
Lit:
A closely related censer is in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Tianxia Longquan: Longquan qingci yu quanqiu hua / Longquan of the World: Longquan Celadon and Globalization, vol. 2, Beijing, 2019, cat. no. 144.
Also compare to an incense burner from the collection of Tan Tse Chor, illustrated in Chinese Celadons and Other Related Wares in Southeast Asia, Southeast Asian Ceramics Society, Singapore, 1979, cat. no. 244.
Condition:
No defects such as hairlines/chips and no restoration, one leg with a glaze fracture/flaw ending in a darkened line.
Inv. No: MW398
