TWO CHINESE BLANC DE CHINE INCENSE BURNERS

TWO CHINESE BLANC DE CHINE INCENSE BURNERS

17TH/18TH CENTURY

Both with compressed circular bodies applied with lion-mask handles, one with a six character Chenghua mark with a paper label for the South Africa National Gallery Chinese Exhibition 1953, no.150, the other with a four character mark which reads zhong xi tong bao, 16cm. (2)

Provenance: from the collection of G R A Murray and thence by descent.

The former exhibited: National Gallery of South Africa, Cape Town, Chinese Exhibition, 1953, no.150