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Lion-Goldschmidt Daisy A Wanli censer in the Tokyo National Museum of this very rare form
1978 Ming Porcelain and with the same painting, with a pierced cover, four free-standing
228 animals around the rim of the liner and two broad strap handles rising
from the tripod base, is illustrated by Daisy Lion-Goldschmidt, Ming Porcelain,
1987 哝⚛ London, 1978, pl. 228, who notes that the shape is inspired by archaic bronze
765 ding of the Eastern Zhou period. Another tripod base, lacking a cover or liner,
is illustrated in Idemitsu Bijutsukan zōhin zuroku. Chūgoku tōji / Chinese
Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, pl. 765.