金 鈞窰天藍釉三足爐

the compressed globular body supported on three short cabriole legs, the short broad neck culminating in a wide angled galleried rim, covered inside and out with a lightly crackled thick milky-blue glaze fading to mushroom at the rim, the tips of the feet left unglazed revealing the reddish-brown body, wood stand (2)

The censer is in overall good condition.
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A tripod censer of similar size, shape and glaze attributed to the Northern Song / Jin Dynasty is in the Palace Museum, Beijing and illustrated in Selection of Jun Ware: the Palace Museum's Collection and Archaeological Excavation, Beijing, 2013, no. 27; and another attributed Jin / Yuan dynasty is in the Meiyintang Collection illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, vol. 1, 1994, no. 391.

Compare another Jun censer sold in these rooms, 16th September 2014, lot 151.