A Southern celadon-glazed tripod censer, Ming dynasty. Photo courtesy Uppsala Auktion.

Standing on three animal-mask feet, moulded to the exterior of the shallow curving body with the eight trigrams and a band of moulded stylised flower heads below the inward-curving rim, covered in a green celadon glaze, stopping short at the centre of the interior and the base. Diameter: 31 cm. Estimate: SEK 3.000 - 4.000 (EUR 330 - 440). Hammer price: SEK 8.500

A similar censer is illustrated in Mittens Rike, En unik exposé av 4000 års konst och konsthantverk från Kina, Borås Konstmuseum, Gothenburg, Sweden, 1985, p. 94. Catalogue no. 273.

Uppsala Auktion, 13 june 2014. www.uppsalaauktion.se