Fine Chinese Works of Art - 15th November 2022

Lot 502

A RARE CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE 'WINDSWEPT' HEXAGONAL INCENSE HOLDER

Estimate £2,000 - £3,000 | Hammer £2800

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Description

A RARE CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE 'WINDSWEPT' HEXAGONAL INCENSE HOLDER

MING DYNASTY

Painted with two quatrefoil cartouches containing a solitary figure, divided by leafy tendrils, raised on a plinth with lotus petals, 17cm.

Together with a copy of the Oxford Authentication Thermoluminescence Analysis Report, sample no. P208c47, dated 23rd October 2008.

Provenance: from a British private collection, purchased from Sotheby's London, on 5th November 2008, lot 68.