17TH/18TH CENTURY

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A DEHUA CENSER
17TH/18TH CENTURY
Of bombé form, raised on a slightly flared foot and set with a pair of 'fish'-shaped handles, covered with a glaze of milk-white color that falls short on the interior to expose a white slip that stops above the unglazed center
5 5/8 in. (14.2 cm.) across handles, box, wood stand

Provenance

Edward T. Chow.
M.C. Wang Collection, China, formed through the 1940s, and thence by descent to the present owners.

Literature

H.D. Ling and E.T. Chow, Collection of Chinese Ceramics from the Hall of Leisurely Pastime, vol. II, Hong Kong, privately printed, 1950, no. 114.

Lot Essay

The shape of the censer and the handles is based on bronze prototypes such as the two bronze censers from the collection of Yang Ping Zhen illustrated in Jin Yu Qing Yan (Golden Jade and Green Smoke), National Museum of History, Taipei, 1996, pp. 226-7, nos. 159 and 160, where the handles are described as fish-shaped.

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