A small blue and white cylindrical tripod censer (Ming dynasty, second half 15th century
£ 12,000.00
Period: Ming Dynasty (second half 15th c.) Dimensions: 9 cm diameter, 7 cm high
Provenance:
– Edith & Brodie Lodge Collection
– Hall Auctions, ‘Oriental and European Ceramics to include the Brodie Lodge Collection of Oriental Ceramics and Works of Art’, Shrewsbury, 1999, lot 8
The censer has slightly bulbous body standing on three short cabriole legs. It is freely painted around the exterior with egrets and geese amongst water reeds, below a band of ruyi-heads around the mouth rim. The glaze has a bluish tinge stopping around the base exposing the orange-burned body.
Compare for a similar form incense burner He Li, Chinese Ceramics the New Standard Guide, Thames and Hudson, p. 222, pl. 410.
Exhibited: The Oriental Ceramics Society, Ming Blue and White, London, 1946, no. 80
A small blue and white cylindrical tripod censer (Ming dynasty, second half 15th century
£ 12,000.00
Period: Ming Dynasty (second half 15th c.)
Dimensions: 9 cm diameter, 7 cm high
Provenance:
– Edith & Brodie Lodge Collection
– Hall Auctions, ‘Oriental and European Ceramics to include the Brodie Lodge Collection of Oriental Ceramics and Works of Art’, Shrewsbury, 1999, lot 8
Description
The censer has slightly bulbous body standing on three short cabriole legs. It is freely painted around the exterior with egrets and geese amongst water reeds, below a band of ruyi-heads around the mouth rim. The glaze has a bluish tinge stopping around the base exposing the orange-burned body.
Compare for a similar form incense burner He Li, Chinese Ceramics the New Standard Guide, Thames and Hudson, p. 222, pl. 410.
Exhibited: The Oriental Ceramics Society, Ming Blue and White, London, 1946, no. 80
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