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

5383 | Wanli period,(1563-1627 AD) A BLUE AND WHITE‘DRAGON’INCENSE BURNER

A BLUE AND WHITE‘DRAGON’INCENSE BURNER

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Size: H10cm

Signed and dated: Wanli period,(1563-1627 AD)

Estimate:

Final Price: RMB 400,000


Wanli Six-Character Mark
PROVENANCE
• Formerly in a Japanese private collection
• The S Marchant & Son,no.M4300(Japanese silver cover and wood box with furoshiki)

An imperial blue and white rectangular incense burner with lion-mask handles on four in-turned feet painted on each wider side of the recessed upper section with two confronting flaming five-clawed dragons amongst stylised clouds between a flaming pearl,the four lower facets with similar design,each with two rwyf-head cloud banks,the flat rim with scrolls on a blue ground