Refined gathering II—selection of marchant and Japanese collection of ming porcelain

5385 | Chongzhen period,(1628-1644 AD) A RARE BLUE AND WHITE‘LITERATI’INCENSE BURNER

A RARE BLUE AND WHITE‘LITERATI’INCENSE BURNER

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Size: H12.8cm;D18.2cm

Signed and dated: Chongzhen period,(1628-1644 AD)

Estimate:

Final Price: RMB 700,000



PROVENANCE
• Formerly in an American private collection,purchased between the 1950’s and 1960’s during Army service in Japan
• The S Marchant & Son,no.M4304

A blue and white tripod censer painted with a continuous scene with figures in river landscape,with one man scratching his back,two standing by a pine tree beside a scholar’s desk and one sitting on the riverbank with his feet crossed with his shoes beside him,all between anhua incised bands at the rim and the base.