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Blue and white tripod censerMing dynasty
Blue and white tripod censerMing dynasty
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147
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Blue and white tripod censerMing dynasty, probably Chenghua period (1467-85)
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Blue and white tripod censerMing dynasty
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BATEA : 145
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censer
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ceramic; porcelain; blue and white; Ming; censer; tripod; floral; peony; China; Chenghua;
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A blue and white circular three legged slightly convex censer, covered, except on the interior, the rim and a patch on the base, with a soft duck white glaze colour, decorated with two peony sprays separated by two tadpole-like squiggles; with double line underglaze blue borders at rim and round the bottom.
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porcelain
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good
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white with orangy tinge
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underglaze blue
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5.4cm
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8.6cm
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15 century
Production period
Ming-Chenghua
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China
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A similar censer has been excavated from a Chenghua tomb. The excavated example was shown by a Chinese lecturer in Hong Kong which I attended in about 1990.
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