TWO POTTERY RITUAL TRIPOD FOOD VESSELS AND COVERS, DING, AND A POTTERY GREEN-GLAZED TRIPOD INCENSE BURNER AND COVER, LIAN Han Dynasty The first, of compressed globular shape with upright handles and three short legs, washed overall in creamy-white slip and painted on top of the cover with a swan within a C-scroll border,17cm (6 1/2in) wide; the second, of similar form but green-glazed, the cover with two overlapping fish, the surface partially iridescent, 16cm (6 1/2in) wide; and a green-glazed cylindrical tripod incense burner and cover, the body with moulded taotie-mask handles, the cover with geometric bands. 19.5cm (7 3/4in) diam. (6). Footnotes: Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 漢 陶蓋鼎兩件 及陶奩式爐 一組三件 Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Summer Exhibition, London, 2002, no.31 (the cylindrical incense burner and cover). Roger Keverne Ltd., Winter Exhibition, London, 2007, no.23 (painted ding) 展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《夏季展覽》，倫敦，2002年，編號31（奩式爐） Roger Keverne Ltd.，《冬季展覽》，倫敦，2007年，編號23（彩繪鼎） For a similar cylindrical tripod jar and cover, Han dynasty, see B.Laufer, Chinese Pottery of the Han Dynasty, 1962, pl.LIX, no.2; see another tripod jar and cover illustrate by J.P.Dubosc, Mostra d'Arte Cinese, Venice, 1954, no.287; and one in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, illustrated by W.Watson, Pre-Tang Ceramics of China: Chinese Pottery from 4000 BC to 600 AD, London, 1991, pl.78. For a painted pottery ding vessel, unearthed in 1986 in Luoyang City, Henan Province, see G.Wong, Treasures from the Han, Singapore, 1990, p.90, For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com