A rare documentary inscribed blue and white incense burner - Dated equivalent to AD1597 and of the period

A rare documentary inscribed blue and white incense burner - Dated equivalent to AD1597 and of the period

Heavily potted with rounded sides and waisted neck below a straight-sided mouth rim, the exterior finely painted in rich tones of cobalt blue depicting the Guardian King and other figures in a rocky garden, a raised band in the centre of the neck inscribed: 'Dedicated by the Buddhist disciple Huang Hui-san when he was sixty-one years old in the Spring of the twenty-fifth year of the Wanli period of the Great Ming Dynasty' (cracked, incomplete, glaze frits). 35.6cm (14in) high. Estimate: £2,000 - 3,000  - Unsold.

Footnote: Illustrated: Sheila Riddell, Dated Chinese Antiquities 600-1650, London, 1979, p.101, no.78

Bonhams. Fine Asian Art, 6 Nov 2006. New Bond Street