Ref: X759
Archive item - not for sale
Chinese blanc de Chine gui-shaped censer, 17th century, on spreading foot with thick foot ring, with everted rim and two stylised lion-head handles, the outside and upper portion of the inside covered in an ivory-white glaze, diameter: approximately 5 5/8in., 14.2cm., condition: 4 firing cracks to the foot rim, age related wear. The shape of this type of censer probably comes from Chinese bronze incense burners which would have had functional free-moving handles. Such censers were used in private Chinese house altars. For further details and for an illustrated example of a similar censer see Jorg, 'Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum', p. 242, pl. 275. A similar censer is also illustrated in 'Dehua Wares Collected by the Palace Museum I' (The Forbidden City Publishing House, 2016), pp. 326-7, pl. 142. SOLD
