TRANSITIONAL PERIOD, C. 1640

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A BLUE AND WHITE CENSER
TRANSITIONAL PERIOD, C. 1640
Of bombé form, the exterior painted with a group of scholars in a continuous scene, two seated in conversation on scallop-edged rugs beneath a tree and the third sitting opposite them, all with stacks of books beside them, while two attendants approach bearing books and a qin, all within a misty mountainous riverscape, the rim with a metal mount
8 5/8 in. (21.9 cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Another bowl with similar style of painting, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Soame Jenyns, is illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, The Ceramic Art of China, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 9 June - 25 July 1971, p. 116, pl. 127, no. 182. Another comparable example painted with scholars and attendants is illustrated by J. B. Curtis in Chinese Porcelains of the Seventeenth Century, China Institute, New York, 1995, p. 140, no. 59.

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