27. M5244

£12,500


Description

Chinese Blanc de Chine incense burner of archaic bronze lian form, on three ruyi-head bracket feet, impressed with a central band of archaic animals on a leiwen, key-fret ground between horizontal ribs, covered in a white glaze.

4 3⁄4 inches, 12 cm diameter.

Dehua, Fujian Province.

Late Ming dynasty, circa 1640.

Provenance & Additional Information

  • From an English private collection, purchased from Marchant circa 1975.
  • A similar example was included by Marchant in their exhibition of Blanc de Chine, 2006, no. 75a, p. 113; another was included by Marchant in their exhibition of Blanc de Chine, 2014, no. 88, p. 116; three others are illustrated by Colin Sheaf and Richard Kilburn in The Hatcher Porcelain Cargos, The Complete Record, 1988, pl. 113, p. 73, which were salvaged from a vessel sunk in the South China Sea between 1643 and 1644, dated as such because two covered blue and white oviform jars salvaged were inscribed with a cyclical date; a further example is illustrated by Wang Qingzheng in Selected Ceramics from The Collection of Mr. & Mrs. J. M. Hu, Shanghai Museum, 1989, no. 31, p. 64; four other similar examples, two from the collection of the Imperial Court of Qing Dynasty are illustrated by Wang Yamin and Huang Weiwen in Dehua Wares Collected by the Palace Museum I, nos. 102-105, pp. 251-254.
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