A FINELY PAINTED BLUE AND WHITE 'FIGURAL' CENSER
PROPERTY FROM THE BUTLER FAMILY COLLECTION
A FINELY PAINTED BLUE AND WHITE `FIGURAL' CENSER

CHONGZHEN PERIOD (1628-1644)

Details
A FINELY PAINTED BLUE AND WHITE 'FIGURAL' CENSER
CHONGZHEN PERIOD (1628-1644)
The slightly compressed body is decorated with a continuous scene depicting an official accompanied by his generals and attendants visiting a sage in a landscape setting.
9 in. (23 cm.) diam.
Provenance
The Butler Family Collection, UK
Literature
M. Butler, B. Harrisson, and Princessehof Museum, Chinese Porcelain: The Transitional Period 1620-1683: A Selection from the Michael Butler Collection, Leeuwarden, Netherlands, 1986, pp. 68-69, no. 77
T. Canepa and K. Butler, Leaping the Dragon Gate- The Sir Michael Butler Collection of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain, London, 2021, p. 197, pl. III.2.30
Exhibited
The Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics, Leeuwarde, Netherlands, Chinese Porcelain: The Transitional Period 1620-1683: A Selection from the Michael Butler Collection, 1986

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