A rare blue and white porcelain censer with four louhan and inscription

Description:

China, Chenghua six-character mark, Kangxi period
D. 24 cm
Around the wall four luohan with inscription 'e-mi-tuo-fo' (Amitabha).
From an important South German private collection, assembled since the 1960s, acquired at Neumeister Munich, 4.11.1982, lot 159
A similar censer formerly in the Bertil J. Hogström Collection, Kangxi Blue and White Porcelain, Marchant, London, 2011, cat. no. 10.No. 10. A similar censer decorated with the "Eighteen Luohan" and dated 1695 is in the Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, and is illustrated in Wang Qingzheng, Underglaze Blue and Red, Shanghai, 1987, fig. 114) - Glaze discolouration and small firing imperfections in the lower third of the vessel - Few tiny chips abover the stand