Lot 2225. A small Guan tripod censer, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279); 3 1/4 in. (8.2 cm.) diam. Estimate HKD 200,000 - HKD 300,000. Price realised HKD 300,000 © Christie’s Images Limited 2013

The censer is potted with a compressed globular body supported on three cabriole feet and surmounted by a cylindrical neck rising to a flat everted rim, with three narrow, tapering flanges beginning at a slight ridge on the shoulder and trailing down each leg. The censer is covered with a finely crackled glaze of greyish-green tone, revealing the brownish-grey body at the feet, silver openwork cover, Japanese wood box.

Provenance: A Japanese private collection, acquired in the 1960s 

Christie’s. Imperial Sale; Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Hong Kong, HKCEC Grand Hall, 29 May 2013