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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE MING ‘FIGURAL’
TRIPOD CENSER
MING DYNASTY, 15TH CENTURY
The cylindrical censer is painted on the exterior with two groups
of figures, one depicting an elderly man riding on a donkey,
accompanied by an attendant holding a tree branch, the other
showing a scholar riding on a horse followed an attendant with
a carrying pole, divided by rocks and grassy mounds, all below a
moulded band and a key-fret band, and raised on three cabriole
legs painted with floral motifs. The underside of the base is
unglazed except for the outermost ring.
6 8 in. (17.5 cm.) diam., lacquer cover, Japanese wood box
HK$700,000-900,000 US$90,000-120,000

PROVENANCE
Mayuyama & Co., Ltd.
A Japanese private collection
LITERATURE
Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. I, Tokyo, 1976, p. 252, no. 760
(fig. 1)
fig. 1 Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. I, Tokyo, 1976, p. 252
A blue and white censer of this form and of comparable size, எӬ 䂆ᯛ㫀ⱥ卿✄Ӭ㫀卿ែ՗卿 ჺ卿㮰
depicting Daoist figures and dating to the Hongzhi period, 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), Hong Kong, 2000,
no. 43 (fig. 2). The same censer is also illustrated by Geng
Baochang under the section of Hongzhi porcelain in Mingqing
ciqi jianding, Beijing, 1993, p. 106, fig. 195, where he comments
on the popularity of this type of censers in the later half of
the 15th century. It is interesting to note that both the current
censer and the Palace Museum example have very similar
mouth rims decorated with keyfrets, and cabriole feet painted
with floral motifs. The considerably free and fluid painting style
seen on both censers is also strikingly similar.

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fig. 2 Collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing
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