A wucai-dragon censer. Kangxi period (1662–1722), 17th century - image-1
A wucai-dragon censer. Kangxi period (1662–1722), 17th century - image-2
A wucai-dragon censer. Kangxi period (1662–1722), 17th century - image-1A wucai-dragon censer. Kangxi period (1662–1722), 17th century - image-2

Lot 155 Dα

A wucai-dragon censer. Kangxi period (1662–1722), 17th century

Auction 1203 - overview Cologne
11.06.2022, 11:00 - Asian Art
Estimate: 4.000 € - 6.000 €

A wucai-dragon censer. Kangxi period (1662–1722), 17th century

The deep rounded sides rising to a wide flared rim, decorated to the exterior with two confronting elongated dragons chasing a pearl of flame between flaming clouds and above foaming waves with spray crests crashing against rockwork. Firing crack retouched.
Diameter 23 cm

清康熙 十七世紀 雙龍戲珠爐
來源: Wooley & Wallis, 2014年5月
Blitz Oriental Art, 荷蘭阿姆斯特丹
The Avalon Collection, 東方陶瓷學會成員
德國北威州私人收藏, 2019年6月購于Bukowskis, 瑞典斯德哥爾摩

Provenance

Woolley & Wallis, May 2014
Blitz Oriental Art, Amsterdam
The Avalon Collection of a member of the English Oriental Ceramic Society
Private collection, North-Rhine-Westphalia, acquired at Bukowskis, Stockholm in June 2019

Literature

For a similar censer see Philip Wilson, Chinese Export Porcelain from the Museum of Anastacio Goncalves, Lisbon 1996, p. 148