A 'Longquan' celadon-glazed 'trigram' censer, Southern Song / Yuan dynasty | 南宋 / 元 龍泉窰青釉八卦紋奩式爐

A 'Longquan' celadon-glazed 'trigram' censer

Southern Song / Yuan dynasty

南宋 / 元 龍泉窰青釉八卦紋奩式爐

of archaistic lian form, well potted with the deep sides rising from a tapered circular foot on the base to an inverted mouth rim, all supported on three cabriole legs, decorated around the body in relief with the 'Eight Trigrams' between two raised fillets, covered overall with an attractive lustrous sea-green glaze, save for the interior center and the foot ring left unglazed revealing the stoneware body burnt russet-orange

Diameter 4 ⅞ in., 12.5 cm