A 'Longquan ' celadon tripod censer. Southern Song Dynasty. Photo Sotheby's

of compressed globular form with a short neck and broad everted rim, supported on three tall tapering legs each molded with a vertical flange, covered overall in a pale whitish-green glaze. Height 3 1/2 in., 8.9 cm. Estimation: 30,000 - 40,000 USD. Lot. Vendu 43,750 USD

PROVENANCE: Baur Collection, no. A99.
Belgian Private Collection.
Sotheby's London, 9th November 2005, lot 274.

NOTE DE CATALOGUE: Similar censers are included in the Illustrated Catalogue of Sung Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum. Lung-ch'uan Ware, Ko and other Wares, Taipei, 1974, pls. 11-12; and in the Illustrated Catalogues of Tokyo NationalMuseum. Chinese Ceramics, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1988, cat. no. 513, from the Yokogawa collection.
A censer of this shape and of similar size was sold in our London rooms, 7th June 1994, lot 301; and another from the Eugene Bernat collection was sold in our New York rooms, 7th November 1980, lot 153.

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, New York | 11 sept. 2012, www.sothebys.com