A RARE CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE TRIPOD INCENSE BURNER. Qing Dynasty Kangxi period, circa 1690. The globular body with three spayed feet emerging from beast masks, and rising to a high spreading mouth, the body decorated with four figurative landscape scenes on a quatrefoil panel against a diaper ground each separated with vertical flanges, the neck with similar panels divided by ruyi heads, the interior of the bowl painted with a single lotus flower, 9.3cm H. Provenance: from the Vung Tau Cargo. 清康熙約一六九零 青花繪三足香爐 來源：頭頓沉船。 The Vung Tau Cargo was discovered in 1989 by Vietnamese fishermen and subsequently sold at Christie's Amsterdam in a two-day sale of 1011 lots on 7th and 8th April 1992. An inkstick in the ship’s cargo bears the cyclical date corresponding to 1690 and much of the porcelain appears to have been created in the decade of 1683 following the reopening of the kilns at Jingdezhen.