Lot 81
81
A RARE CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE 'QILIN' CENSER AND COVER
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A RARE CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE `QILIN' CENSER AND COVER

17TH CENTURY

Details
A RARE CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE 'QILIN' CENSER AND COVER
17TH CENTURY
Stoutly potted with the head forming the hinged cover, the body moulded with bold scrolls over 'pencil'-style fur markings
8 ½ in. (21.5 cm.) high
Provenance
With Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, purchased July 1993.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

Compare the very similar censer from the Butler Family Collection which was illustrated by Sir Michael Butler and Professor Wang Qingzheng in Seventeenth Century Jingdezhen Porcelain from the Shanghai Museum and the Butler Collection, London, 2006, no. 130, pp. 340 & 341, where it is dated to the Tianqi period (1621-1627).

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