Lot 1451. A blue and sancai-glazed pottery tripod censer, Tang dynasty (618-907); 8 in. (20.3 cm.) across. Estimate USD 7,000 - USD 9,000. Price realised USD 20,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2011

The somewhat compressed globular body raised on three amber-glazed paw supports and applied at mid-body atop a bow-string band with three foliate medallions alternating with three flower-form medallions applied on the shoulder, glazed in green, amber and ivory and reserved on a rich blue ground, the out-turned mouth rim streaked in blue, amber and ivory, and the interior washed with a pale amber glaze, stand.

Provenance: Yin Chuan Tang Ltd., Hong Kong, 15 May, 1989.
Greenwald Collection no. 13. 

Literature: Gerald M. Greenwald, The Greenwald Collection, Two Thousand Years of Chinese Ceramics, 1996, no. 13. 

Christie's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Part I & II, 15 September 2011, New York