A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE 'LUDUAN' CENSER AND COVER

Late Ming Dynasty

明晚期 青花繪甪端香蓋爐

The beast's horned head forms the cover, with smoke vents through the nose, ears and mouth lined with fangs, moulded with a curved tail and painted with cash and ruyi heads to the sides of the corpulent body, standing four-square on short feet, contained in a wood box,

14cm high (4)

Provenance: formerly from a Japanese private collection.

來源：日本私人收藏。

A similar piece designated as from the Tianqi period (1621-1627) is illustrated in Butler and Wang, 'Seventeenth Century Jingdezhen Porcelain from the Shanghai Museum and the Butler Collection', 2006, no 130, pp 340-341.

Another comparable is illustrated by Teresa Canepa and Katharine Butler, 'Leaping the Dragon Gate : The Sir Michael Butler Collection of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain', 2021, p.112, no.III.1.71.

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