A purple-splashed junyao tripod censer Jin Dynasty

robustly potted, the compressed globular body supported on three cabriole legs emanating from leonine masks, with a short cylindrical neck and wide everted rim set between upright rectangular handles, dressed overall in a bubble-suffused sky-blue glaze accented with lavender splashes

Jun incense burners of this type are mostly of much smaller size, for example, one in the Percival David Foundation, London, illustrated in Margaret Medley, Yüan Porcelain and Stoneware, London, 1974, pl.81A; or another sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 2nd November 1998, lot 339. Compare also a smaller plain blue censer with different handles, in Chûgoku tôji zenshû, vol.12, Kyoto, 1983, pl.32.