Lot 45
45
a rare blue-glazed white slip-decorated censer
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a rare blue-glazed white slip-decorated censer

WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)

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a rare blue-glazed white slip-decorated censer
Wanli six-character mark and of the period (1573-1619)
Of bombéshape on three short legs, freely painted and incised in sgraffiato style with three striding dragons, their tails bifurcating into cloud-scrolls, the interior glazed white
8 5/8 in. (22 cm.) diam. (2)
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Lot Essay

Compare the example in the Museum Pusat, Jakarta, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 3, col. pl. 87. Compare also the similarly decorated ewer and cover from the Percival David Foundation illustrated in ibid., vol. 6, fig. 159, and the ewer illustrated by Krahl in Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, vol. II, p. 470, col. pl. 1643

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