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A FINE AND LARGE BLUE AND WHITE 'MYTHICAL The present lot is remarkable for the range and diversity of the mythical
CREATURES' INCENSE BURNER creatures depicted. The design harks back to earlier related depictions
Chongzhen during the Ming dynasty: see a blue and white bowl, Xuande, with
Heavily potted with a compressed globular body rising from a tall similar decoration of mythical creatures over waves, illustrated by
spreading foot to a waisted mouth, painted in vibrant tones of cobalt- Chen Ching-kuang, 'Sea Creatures on Ming Imperial Porcelain', The
blue with swirling waves from which emerge various mythical creatures Porcelains of Jingdezhen, London, 1993, pl.1, where it is suggested
including qilin, tortoise, crab, dragon, sea-horse as well as various that this motif may be related to the auspicious creatures described
shells, all between a lotus scroll border at mouth and key-fret border at in the Shanhai jing (山海經), a mythical geography of China and the
the foot. known-world, dated to the Eastern Zhou/Han dynasty. It is possible
21cm (8 1/4in) diam. that such designs were inspired by woodblock illustrations from
this classic. See also a blue and white jar decorated with winged
£20,000 - 30,000 animals over waves, mid 15th century, showing a horse, an elephant,
CNY160,000 - 240,000 a mongoose, a fish, a rabbit and two cervids, in the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York (acc.no.2010.220). A related blue and white
明崇禎 青花瑞獸紋香爐 bowl, Wanli mark and of the period, in the National Palace Museum,
Taipei, is illustrated in Porcelain of the National Palace Museum: Blue
Provenance: and White Ware of the Ming Dynasty, vol.6, Hong Kong, 1963, pl.18;
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 28 April 1998, lot 774 another related blue and white bowl, Wanli, is in the Shanghai Museum
Sotheby's London, 15 May 2007, lot 70 and illustrated by Lu Minghua, Qingdai guanyao ciqi, Shanghai 2007,
pl.1-83, together with a smaller underglaze-blue and iron red version,
來源： pl.3-57.
蘇富比，香港，1998年4月28日，拍品774
蘇富比，倫敦，2007年5月15日，拍品70 A related blue and white censer with mythical beasts but not on
waves, dated to the sixteenth year of Shunzhi, 1659, in the Palace
Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Qing Shunzhi Kangxi chao qinghua ci,
Beijing, 2005, pp.52-53, no.25.

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