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3 septembre 2016

An archaistic 'Dehua' censer, late Ming-early Qing dynasty

An archaistic 'Dehua' censer, late Ming-early Qing dynasty

Lot 289. An archaistic 'Dehua' censer, late Ming-early Qing dynasty. Estimate 6,000 — 8,000 USD. Photo: Sotheby's

of gui-form, the recessed neck applied with a band of florettes alternating with roundels and centered by taotie, flanked by beast masks issuing loop handles with tab terminals, raised on a high hollow foot with stepped base and impressed with a double-row of leiwen, the base with an impressed square jinfeng seal mark - Width 7 1/2  in., 19 cm

From the Collection of Richard Lehman Gray

Notes: A nearly identical example is in the Hickley Collection, illustrated in Rose Kerr and John Ayers, Blanc de Chine: Porcelain from Dehua, Chicago, 2002, pl. 71. Compare a similar example but with a single band of leiwen around the foot illustrated in P.J. Donnelly, Blanc de Chine, London, 1969, pl. 14B, from the author's collection; and another illustrated in Robert H. Blumenfield, Blanc de Chine: The Great Porcelain of Dehua, Berkeley, 2002, pl. 104B. A similar censer was sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 17th May 1988, lot 41. Compare also an inlaid bronze gui attributed to Hu Wenming with similar decoration below the rim illustrated by Sheila Riddell, Dated Chinese Antiquities 600-1650, London, 1979, pl. 128, with an inscription dated to the tenth year of Wanli, corresponding to 1583.

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art, New York, 13 sept. 2016, 10:30 AM

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