Lot Essay
Compare the related censer raised on similar supports and with the same mark, similarly cast with a band of different flowers on a diaper ground between similar borders illustrated by P. Moss, The Literati Mode, Sydney L. Moss Ltd., London, 1986, p. 290, no. 144, where the censer is dated Wanli period, c. 1600. See, also, the similar censer sold in these rooms, 22 March 2007, lot 197.