A blue and white censer, Ming Dynasty, 16th century
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A blue and white censer, Ming Dynasty, 16th century

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A blue and white censer, Ming Dynasty, 16th century
the bombe body decorated on each side with a recumbent qilin amongst clouds, flanked by moulded elephant head handles, within bands of key fret and foliate lappets -- 11in. (28cm) wide across handles.
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Lot Essay

The shape of this censer and the unusual elephant head handles can be seen in a censer decorated in the wucai palette with confonting dragons and painted with a Jiajing-dated inscription, 'The Herzman Collection of Chinese Ceramics', Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992, p.91, no.89.

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