JIAJING PERIOD (1522-1566)

A similar censer, of slightly smaller size (25.8 cm. diam.), excavated from a eunuch's tomb in Chengdu city, Sichuan province, is illustrated by Zhang Bai in Complete Collection of Ceramic Art Unearthed in China, vol. 10, Beijing, 2007, no. 175, where it is dated to the Jiajing period.