Lot 355
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VARIOUS PROPERTIES
AN UNUSUAL FAMILLE VERTE THREE-PART CENSER

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AN UNUSUAL FAMILLE VERTE THREE-PART CENSER
19TH CENTURY

Each section molded with dragon-scroll panels framed within foliate borders, the panels of the central curved section and the domed cover pierced, while the panels on the lower section have solid yellow-glazed backgrounds, raised on three legs and with an everted rim--10 3/8in. (26.3cm.) high

Lot Essay

Compare a famille verte censer of the same size, but dated to the Kangxi period, in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Masterworks of Chinese Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, pl. 40, and another, possibly the same one, included in the International Exhibition of Chinese Art, Royal Academy of Art, London, 1935-6, Catalogue no. 2094