£8,000
A Sancai and Blue Glazed Tripod Censer, Tang dynasty the compressed globular body rising from three short lion paw legs, and with a short waisted neck with rolled rim, brightly glazed on a straw-coloured ground with splashes of green, blue and ochre around the shoulder, with the rim and top of the legs in ochre, the lower body unglazed revealing the pinkish-white body.
The dating of this lot is consistent with the results of Oxford Authentication Ltd., Thermoluminescence Test no.666r8. H:12.5cm, W:18cm
This brightly glazed censer is in good condition with the exception of the loss to glaze at three points of the rim with spur marks, a circa 2x2mm., glaze flake to the side of the vessel, a circa 5x1mm glaze flake to the top of one leg, and a slight lean where one leg has slightly slumped in the firing.
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