Porcelain three-legged barrel-shaped incense burner with green glaze. Porcelain. Longquan ware 龍泉窯. Longquan region, Zhejiang province 浙江省, 龍泉地區. Ming dynasty, about AD 1400-1520. Bequeathed by Brenda Zara Seligman. Registration number: 1973,0726.337 © Trustees of the British Museum

Height: 13.3 cm. Diameter: 18.9 cm. This barrel-shaped incense burner stands on three cabriole legs and has a pendant round unglazed base. It is incised around the neck and above the legs with horizontal lines.

Acquisition notes: The Seligman Collection of Oriental Art

It is dated on the basis of stylistic comparison to a Longquan incense burner in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, dated 1517.

Bibliographic reference: Harrison-Hall, Jessica, Catalogue of Late Yuan and Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, BMP, 2001

Ayers, John, The Seligman Collection of Oriental Art: Volume II, London, Lund Humphries, 1964