Lot 35. A blue and white censer, Kangxi period (1662-1722); 25.8cm diam. Sold for €9,600.  Photo Bonhams.

The compressed globular body raised on three short feet, painted around the exterior with a continuous landscape scene with two scholars strolling on a mountain path surrounded by lofty mountains, a fisherman in a sampan on a river..

Provenance: Hoffmann collection, Berlin, acquired from China Bohlken, Berlin, in 1927 (according to a note)
Lempertz, Cologne, 1 December 2000, lot 550.

Published and Exhibited: Daniel Suebsmann and Daniela Antonin, Kangxi - Porcelain Treasures of the Kangxi Period, Düsseldorf, cat.no. 49
Kangxi - Porcelain Treasures of the Kangxi Period, Hetjens Museum, Düsseldorf, June 2015 - February 2016, no.49.

Bonhams - Cornette de Saint Cyr. CHINESE ART FROM A GERMAN FAMILY COLLECTION, Paris, 26 October 2023