MING DYNASTY

細節

A Fahua Tripod Censer
Ming dynasty
Raised on three mask and paw supports, the deep body decorated on two sides with ornamental rocks flanked by peony branches, each vignette positioned below three detached clouds on the waisted neck and two segments of classic scroll on the upright mouth rim, all carved and outlined in slip under turquoise, pale aubergine and cream glaze reserved on a deep blue ground, the interior of the neck covered with a thin green glaze
9½in. (24.1cm.) high

拍品專文

A fahua censer of similar form, but decorated with dragons and phoenix and with an inscribed date corresponding to 1520, is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and is illustrated by S. Riddell, Dated Chinese Antiquities: 600-1650, London, 1979, p. 121, no. 109.