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DRAGONS FROM THE EMPIRE - IMPERIAL CERAMICS FROM THE YIDETANG COLLECTION
龍行皇天 - 藝德堂珍藏御製陶瓷
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A VERY RARE BLUE AND WHITE SQUARE 明萬曆 青花海水雲龍八卦紋獸方蓋爐
CENSER AND COVER 長方框六字楷書款
WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A 來源
DOUBLE RECTANGLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619) 倫敦邦瀚斯，2012 年 11 月 8 日，拍品 38 號
The censer is painted on each side with a pair of dragons
confronted on a flaming pearl, raised above four shaped legs 本香爐器形罕見，而且保有原蓋，屬實難得。近似例見於清宮舊藏，一
painted with rolling and crashing waves, with a pair of rectangular 件藏於國立故宮博物院，載於《故宮藏瓷 - 明青花瓷（六）隆慶 萬曆 》，
openwork handles applied on either side of the mouth rim. The 香港，1963 年，封面、圖 9（圖一）；另一件缺蓋，藏於北京故宮博物院，
sides of the tiered cover are painted with the Eight Trigrams below 見故宮博物院藏文物珍品全集《青花釉裏紅（中）》，上海，2000 年，
a finial in the form of a qilin seated on its haunches. 圖版 177 號
8¬ in. (22 cm.) high, box
PROVENANCE
Sold at Bonhams London, 8 November 2012, lot 38
HK$300,000-500,000 US$39,000-65,000
It is very rare to find a Wanli censer of this form complete with cover.
Two nearly identical Wanli censers are in the Qing Court collection,
one in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated on the cover of
Porcelain of the National Palace Museum,Blue-and-White Ware of the
Ming Dynasty, Book VI, Hong Kong, 1963, no. 9 (fig. 1); the other missing
its cover, is in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete
Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Blue and White Porcelain
with Underglazed Red (II) , Shanghai, 2000, p. 190, no. 177.

(mark) fig. 1 Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei
圖一 國立故宮博物館藏品

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