A VERY RARE WUCAI ‘EIGHT IMMORTALS‘ CENSER

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Lot 2953 | A VERY RARE WUCAI ‘EIGHT IMMORTALS‘ CENSER
A VERY RARE WUCAI ‘EIGHT IMMORTALS‘ CENSER

SIGNED WANG YIREN, DATED TO KANGXI BINGZI CYCLICAL YEAR CORRESPONDING TO 1696 AND OF THE PERIOD

The slightly compressed body is decorated with the Eight Daoist Immortals. The interior is inscribed with a character representing the maker’s surname, Wang, and the base is inscribed with nine characters within a double circle reading Kangxi bingzi nian Wang Yiren zhi, 'placed by Wang Yiren in Kangxi cyclical bingzi year’.

5 5/8 in. (14.3 cm.) diam.





Provenance

The Butler Family Collection, UK



Literature

M. Butler, B. Harrisson, and Princessehof Museum, Chinese Porcelain: The Transitional Period 1620-1683: A Selection from the Michael Butler Collection, Leeuwarden, Netherlands, 1986, p. 53, no. 56

Sir M. Butler, 'Chinese Porcelain at the Beginning of the Qing,’ Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, 1984-1985, vol. 49, London, 1986, pp. 11-39, pl. 8

Sir M. Butler, M. Medley and S. Little, Seventeenth Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection, Alexandria, Virginia, 1990, p. 111, no. 64

Sir M. Butler and Q. Wang, Seventeenth Century Jingdezhen Porcelain from the Shanghai Museum and the Butler Collections: Beauty's Enchantment, Shanghai, 2006, pp. 298-299, no. 111

T. Canepa and K. Butler, Leaping the Dragon Gate- The Sir Michael Butler Collection of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain, London, 2021, p. 468, pl. III.4.142a-c



Exhibited

The Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics, Leeuwarde, Netherlands, Chinese Porcelain: The Transitional Period 1620-1683: A Selection from the Michael Butler Collection, 1986

Travelling exhibition to 12 museums in the United States, Seventeenth Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection, 1990

Shanghai Museum, Seventeenth Century Jingdezhen Porcelain from the Shanghai Museum and the Butler Collections: Beauty's Enchantment, 1 December 2005- 28 February 2006
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