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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF LENORA AND WALTER F. BROWN PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF LENORA AND WALTER F. BROWN
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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE TRIPOD CENSER A RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'MAGIC FOUNTAIN' EWER
JIAJING PERIOD, DATED TO BINGWU YEAR, CORRESPONDING TO JIAJING PERIOD (1522-1566)
1546, AND OF THE PERIOD Each side of the ewer is decorated in bright shades of underglaze cobalt
The compressed body is decorated above each leg with a panel containing blue with a fountain with a pair of central animal heads and upper
a central winged figure beneath an inscription reading Da Ming Jiajing interlocking bird heads, both spouting water into a circular basin, which
bingwu nian Dunrentang jing zhu (Respectfully commissioned by The Hall is supported on the back of a qilin, all between decorative borders on the
of Sincere Benevolence in the bingwu year [1546] of Jiajing of the great spreading neck and tall, pedestal foot.
Ming), all below a floral band on the waisted mid-section and another 15¡ in. (39.1 cm.) high, cloth box
inscription below the rim, Guanyin dashi zuo qian (Before the throne of
Guanyin bodhisattva).
$40,000-60,000
8 in. (20.5 cm.) wide across handles, cloth box
PROVENANCE:
$20,000-30,000 Millon Jutheau, Paris, 25 June 1980.
The Lenora and Walter F. Brown Collection, San Antonio, Texas.
PROVENANCE:
Mayuyama & Co., Ltd., Tokyo, 22 November 1982. EXHIBITED:
The Lenora and Walter F. Brown Collection, San Antonio, Texas. Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Private Eye: Selected
Works from Collections of Friends of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 11
June-13 August 1989.
A blue and white censer of comparable size, decorated with the same
motif and of similar form, but with a Ming Wanli bingxu nian Endetang On loan, San Antonio Museum of Art, February 2003-March 2004.
jingzhu (Respectfully commissioned by the Endetang in the bingxu year
(1586) of Wanli) mark, was sold at Sotheby’s New York, 13 September 明嘉靖 青花湧泉麒麟紋執壺
2017, lot 63.

明嘉靖丙午年(1546) 青花高士圖朝冠耳三足爐
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