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青 11. A Chinese porcelain blue and white censer of bombé form with single rib, slightly flared rim and everted foot, painted on the body
花
羅 with four seated luohans, each on an oval rug, two with fly whisks, one with a sceptre and one with his hands together in prayer, the
漢 four characters a mi tuo fo, beneath a keyfret and jewelled band.
7 ¾ inches, 19.6 cm diameter.
圖 The underside with a six-character mark of Chenghua in underglaze blue within an anhua single ring, Kangxi, 1662-1722.
香
爐 • Formerly in an English private collection.
• A smaller example was included by Marchant in their exhibition of The Bertil J. Högström Collection, Kangxi Blue and White
清 Porcelain, 2011, no. 10, pp. 22/3.
康 • A censer of this form painted with the ‘Eighteen Lohans’ bearing a Kangxi reign mark and date corresponding to 1695, in The
熙 Shanghai Museum Collection, is illustrated by Wang Qingzheng in Underglaze Blue and Red, no. 114, p. 118.
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