A TEADUST-GLAZED INCENSE BURNER QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD |

of bombé form supported on a short foot, set with two loop handles, the base with a wide unglazed ring covered with a dark brown slip, wood stand

Sotheby's Hong Kong, 24th/25th May 1979, lot 558.

The incense burner is in very good condition. The rim with a minute glaze flake. There are some minor glaze firing imperfections.
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A censer of this type but with a shorter neck, in the Zhuyuetang collection, was included in the exhibition Mille Ans de Monochromes, Fondation Baur, Geneva, 2018, cat. no. 152; another in the Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt am Main, is illustrated in Gunhild Gabbert, Chinesisches Porzellan, Frankfurt am Main, 1977, pl. 418; and a third of slightly larger size was sold in our London rooms, 2nd December 1997, lot 233.