Lot 323
  • 323

TWO LARGE FAHUA 'DRAGON' CENSERS WANLI MARK AND PERIOD

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
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Description

  • Length: 14 inches to handles
each of compressed globular form supported on three animal-mask legs, molded in high relief all around with dragons confronting a flower, flanked by two curved upright handles, all in glazes of blue, turquoise, purple and mustard-yellow, the galleried rims each bearing a date, with one dated to the fourteenth year of the Wanli reign corresponding to 1588, and the other dated to the sixteenth year of the Wanli reign corresponding to 1560 (2)