Author: --
Size: H10cm
Signed and dated: Wanli period,(1563-1627 AD)
Estimate:
Final Price: RMB 400,000
Wanli Six-Character Mark
PROVENANCE
• Formerly in a Japanese private collection
• The S Marchant & Son,no.M4300(Japanese silver cover and wood box with furoshiki)
An imperial blue and white rectangular incense burner with lion-mask handles on four in-turned feet painted on each wider side of the recessed upper section with two confronting flaming five-clawed dragons amongst stylised clouds between a flaming pearl,the four lower facets with similar design,each with two rwyf-head cloud banks,the flat rim with scrolls on a blue ground