Lot 36. A blue and white tripod censer, Yuan dynasty; 10.7cm., 4 1/2 in. Estimate 4,070 - 5,426 EUR. Lot sold 27,500 GBP. Photo courtesy Sotheby's.

the compressed globular body raised on three cabriole legs terminating in paw feet, the cylindrical neck flanked by upright curved handles and surmounted by a galleried rim, painted to the exterior with a leafy branch of flowering prunus, all below a classic scroll at the neck, the neck and handles defined by single blue lines, the feet with geometric ruyi-shaped motifs, Japanese wood box. Quantité: 2.

Provenance: Mayuyama & Co. Ltd., Tokyo.

Exhibition: Sō Gen no bijutsu [The Art of Song and Yuan], Osaka Municipal Art Museum, Osaka, 1978, cat. no. 1-252. 

Bibliography: Ryūsen Shūhō. Sōgyō shichijū shūnen kinen/Mayuyama: Seventy Years, Tokyo, 1976, vol. 1, pl. 718..

Sotheby's. The Soul of Japanese Aesthetics – The Tsuneichi Inoue Collection, Londres, 13 mai 2015, 10:00 AM