YELLOW-GLAZED WITH BROWN SPOTS DING-FORM CENSER
QIANLONG MARK AND POSSIBLY OF THE PERIOD
乾隆款或到代 黃釉褐彩樹瘤紋三足鼎式香爐the globular body supported on three long feet and surmounted with two looped handles, the exterior carved in relief with irregular warts highlighted in brown enamel against yellow ground, the underside of the body incised with a four-character Qianlong mark 
10cm high 
A closely comparable yellow-glazed tripod vessel of similar style and size but unmarked, dated to the Qing dynasty, Kangxi period, was in Henry J Oppenheim's collection and bequeathed to the British Museum in 1949, museum registration number 1947,0712.285. The same censer has also been published in Later Chinese porcelain: The Ch'ing dynasty (1644-1912) by Soame Jenyns, Published by Faber & Faber, 1965, Plate XXV, 2B.