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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE BAY AREA COLLECTION
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A BLUE AND WHITE CENSER
Transitional/Kangxi
The compressed bombe body raised on a short circular foot and
rising to a gently flared rim, the sides painted a continuous riverbank
landscape with fishermen on boats and a scholar with an attendant
gazing in the mountain landscape.
5 1/2in (14cm) high

$6,000 - 9,000
清早期/康熙 青花山水人物香爐

For a similar Kangxi period bombe-shaped blue and white censer with
figures in landscape settings, see Sotheby’s, New York, 17 March
2021, lot 142; and for another of the Transitional period, circa 1640,
see Sotheby’s, London, 9 November 2011, lot 172.

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