A Zhangzhou brown-glazed slip-decorated censer. Wanli period (1572-1620)

A Zhangzhou brown-glazed slip-decorated censer. Wanli period (1572-1620)

Of bulbous shape, decorated in white slip on an amber-brown ground to the exterior with a dragon and a phoenix and two lion mask handles below the rim.
Diameter 14 cm

明萬曆 漳州窯龍鳳纹罐

來源：德國魯爾 區私人收藏，藏品集於二十世紀六十年代，1966年購於德國敘爾特 島 China-Bohlken 藝術行，此後由家族傳承

可比：香港美術博物館，《South-East Asian and Chinese Trade Pottery》（ 東南亞瓷與中國出口瓷）香港 1979年，編號150

Provenance

Private collection, Ruhr area, assembled since the 1960s, acquired in 1966 at China Bohlken, Westerland, and thence in the family by descent

Literature

Compare a bowl of similar type in Hong Kong Museum of Art, South-East Asian and Chinese Trade Pottery, Hong Kong 1979, no. 150