A 'Longquan' celadon-glazed duck-form censer, Ming dynasty | 明 龍泉窰青釉瑞鵝式爐

Collection of Tage Holm Fredrik Grönwall (1903-1988), acquired in Japan between the 1950s and early 1960s.

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Tage Holm Fredrik Grönwall (1903-1988) 收藏，1950年代至1960年代初期得於日本

For related Ming dynasty incense burners, see one in the form of a duck with its head turned to one side, formerly in the collection of Brenda Zara Seligman, now in the British Museum, London, and illustrated in Jessica Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, pl. 16:93; another, in the form of a parrot, gifted to the Museum by George Eumorfopoulos, illustrated in ibid., pl. 1694.

Tage Holm Fredrik Grönwall was a Swedish diplomat who had a long career with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was stationed in Tokyo from 1956 to 1962.