A CHINESE CELADON-GLAZED 'EIGHT TRIGRAMS' TRIPOD CENSER

Late Ming Dynasty

晚明 青釉八卦紋三足爐

The compressed body raised on three mask-form feet and carved in relief to the exterior to depict the bagua below a band of flowerhead bosses around the rim, decorated with a pale olive-green glaze suffused with a network of russet-coloured crackles, the glaze falling short of the well and base to reveal the buff-coloured body,

c.f. A comparable censer, dated to the late Ming Dynasty, was offered at Sotheby's New York, 24th March 2021, lot 541.

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