Lot 127. A Zhangzhou brown-glazed slip-decorated censer, Wanli period (1572-1620). Diameter 14 cm. Est: €3,000 - €5,000. Courtesy Lempertz

Of bulbous shape, decorated in white slip on an amber-brown ground to the exterior with a dragon and a phoenix and two lion mask handles below the rim.

Provenance: Private collection, Ruhr area, assembled since the 1960s, acquired in 1966 at China Bohlken, Westerland, and thence in the family by descent.

Literature: Compare a bowl of similar type in Hong Kong Museum of Art, South-East Asian and Chinese Trade Pottery, Hong Kong 1979, no. 150.

Kunsthaus Lempertz KG, Asian Art I (China - Tibet/Nepal - India, South East Asia), June 24, 2021, Köln, Germany