Lot Essay
Compare the similarly moulded and pierced cricket cage but in gilt-highlighted iron-red illustrated in Zhongguo Taoci Quanji, vol. 21, pl. 82
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A MOULDED BLUE AND WHITE SQUARE THREE-PART CENSER, 18TH CENTURY, the lower section raised on four baluster supports decorated with ruyi heads, each side moulded in thread relief with a taotie mask painted in underglaze blue, the middle section and canted cover with similar masks surrounded by reticulated areas, all within pencilled borders of classic scroll, cover with Buddhistic lion finial left in the biscuit above a field of pierced foliate design--7½ in. high
Details
A MOULDED BLUE AND WHITE SQUARE THREE-PART CENSER, 18TH CENTURY, the lower section raised on four baluster supports decorated with ruyi heads, each side moulded in thread relief with a taotie mask painted in underglaze blue, the middle section and canted cover with similar masks surrounded by reticulated areas, all within pencilled borders of classic scroll, cover with Buddhistic lion finial left in the biscuit above a field of pierced foliate design--7½ in. high
Provenance
Frank Partridge Collection
Hemenway Galleries, New Orleans
Hemenway Galleries, New Orleans