A VERY FINE BRILLIANT LAVENDER-GLAZED JUNYAO TRIPOD CENSER

Description:

China, Northern Song dynasty
H. 5,8 / D. 8 cm
The censer of compressed spherical shape with an everted rim on three applied short cabriole legs revealing the grey-brown stoneware body underneath, under a crackled light blue glaze thinning to a light brown at the rim, pooling to a thick light turquoise at the neck
Collection of Annelore Elbrecht (1924-2013), acquired from Anne Roselt, Cologne, 1987
Cf. a similar piece in: J. Ayers - The Baur Collection, vol. 1, Geneva, 1968, A 38
Very small chip to the rim, otherwise good condition