明 青釉刻蓮紋三足爐

the shallow rounded sides rising from three animal-mask feet to an incurved lip, carved around the exterior with lotus scrolls below a narrow band of applied floret studs, covered overall with a grayish-green glaze, pooling to a turquoise-green and suffused with a dense network of crackle, stopping unevenly at the center of the interior and base to reveal the dark-brown stoneware body 

George Eumorfopoulos (1863-1939) 收藏，編號 B113
倫敦蘇富比1940年5月28日，編號85
Henry Guinness de Laszlo (1901-1967) 收藏，此後家族傳承

R.L. Hobson，《The George Eumorfopoulos Collection Catalogue of the Chinese, Corean and Persian Pottery and Porcelain》，卷II，倫敦，1926年，圖版XXXII，圖B151
R.L. Hobson 及 A.L. Hetherington，《The Art of the Chinese Potter》，倫敦，1923年，圖版LXX，圖2

There is an approx. 14 cm wide V-shaped crack to the rim with an associated crack running vertically through the middle, measuring approx. 9 cm long. There are also several hairline cracks to the rim, the longest measuring approx. 7.5 cm long. There is a 2.2 cm wide old chip to one of the feet. Minor firing imperfections.
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