Measurements: Height: 29 cm Diam: 26 cm

Chinese Song Dynasty Period, Guan Kiln ware porcelain tripod censer. Potted in censer shape, globular body, gently tapered on short neck toward opening mouth prominent, flaring mouth rim, emerge archaic ruyi shape flanked on the shoulder create majestic handle, and the whole piece is raised three short tripod legs. Warm and uniform grayish celadon glaze applied to the whole body. Decorated with hand-painting in grayish agate under glazed base color which contrast against the Ge design color. Crackled glaze also known as jinsi tiexian which translates to mean gold floss and iron thread which details the look of several lines that appear in the crackled surface. This inadvertently gave texture, energy, and shading to the design.

The underside foot unglazed, revealed the pale-creme ground revealed and dark grayish brown spotted firing marks and edge-cut foot rim.

Over all in EXCELLENT Condition.
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