A rare Chinese brown-glazed tripod censer , Tang Dynasty, 8th-9th century, the globular body set on three cabriole legs, the underside partly unglazed revealing a light grey stoneware body, approximately 15cm high x 19cm wide A very similar black-glazed stoneware censer unearthed in 1999 at the site of Tang dynasty Xing kilns, Hebei province, is illustrated in Qian Nian Xing Yao (Xing Kiln in its Millennium), Beijing, 2007, p. 132. A smaller tripod censer of closely related form is illustrated by Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Vol. I, London 1994, p. 129, no. 210 Compare a similar example from the J.J. Lally Collection, 20th March 2023, lot 3 (US$10,837.50 inc. premium) 唐 褐釉三足炉 Condition Report: some crazing to the glaze flakes to glaze on rim firing faults to glaze green paint splash on side