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9/2/2020 Important Chinese Art | Sotheby's

Impo rtant Chinese Art
New York |23 Sep 2020 | 09:00 AM EDT

Lot 788

A BLUE AND WHITE 'LUOHAN' CENSER, QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD
Estimate: 20,000 - 30,000 USD

A BLUE AND WHITE 'LUOHAN' CENSER
QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD
清康熙 青花「阿彌陀佛」爐

of compressed bombé form, the rounded sides sweeping to a gently flaring rim, and raised on a straight foot, the exterior finely
painted in varying tones of cobalt-blue with four luohan seated on circular fringed mats, halos encircling their bald heads, attired in
monks' robes, two holding fly whisks, one with a scepter and the fourth with hands in prayer, divided by four inscribed characters,
a mi tuo fo, all beneath a keyfret band surmounted by a row of small dots, the interior white-glazed, the base with an apocryphal
six-character Chenghua mark

《大明成化年製》仿款

Diameter 7¾ in., 19.6 cm

Provenance
Marchant, London.

來源
Marchant，倫敦

Exhibition
Imperial Chinese Porcelain, Ceramics & Works of Art, Marchant, London, 2013, cat. no. 11.

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