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Lot 660

A SLIP-DECORATED ZHANGZHOU WARE TRIPOD DRAGON CENSER

Estimated Value:

2.500 € - 3.500 €

Schätzpreis:

2.500 €

Description:

China, Wanli period
D. 22 cm
From a private collection in southern Germany, in the family since the 1970s - Cf. two vases published in J. Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, p. 34, pl. II:188 and II:189, where they are dated to the Ming dynasty, c. 1573-1620. The author points out that this combination of coffee-brown ground and contrasting white decoration was first introduced in the Wanli period and that sherds of this type from the late Ming period have been excavated at Zhushan in Jingdezhen - very minor traces of age