The Property of a Gentleman
A blue and white cylindrical censer on three ruyi head feet, painted with four roundels bearing Arabic inscriptions on a ground of conjoined foliate scrolls above a double line border, gold mounted rim (reduced, old restoration, semi-circular firing crack to base) -- 4in. high, Zhengde six-character mark and of the period.
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A blue and white cylindrical censer on three ruyi head feet, painted with four roundels bearing Arabic inscriptions on a ground of conjoined foliate scrolls above a double line border, gold mounted rim (reduced, old restoration, semi-circular firing crack to base) -- 4in. high, Zhengde six-character mark and of the period.
See Colour Plate 35 and detail of mark.
Provenance: Garner Collection.
Compare the vase or lamp of the Wu Lai-hsi and Palmer Collections, illustrated by Garner 'Oriental Blue and White', plate 43b.
Previously sold: Sotheby's Hong Kong, May 20th/21st 1980, lot 41.
See Colour Plate 35 and detail of mark.
Provenance: Garner Collection.
Compare the vase or lamp of the Wu Lai-hsi and Palmer Collections, illustrated by Garner 'Oriental Blue and White', plate 43b.
Previously sold: Sotheby's Hong Kong, May 20th/21st 1980, lot 41.
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