Chinese white porcelain lian - 奩 type incense burner, Dehua, China, 17th century Resting on three small feet in the form of a ruyi head, the body decorated with three bands, the central one incised with an archaic style motif showing kui dragons on a Greek background. The bottom and underside are unglazed. It is covered with a classic Dehua glaze of ivory color. Wooden base. Height : 9,1 cm ; diameter : 13,5 cm In a brown box. Provenance: E. T. Chow Collection, n°472 (Sotheby's, 19 May 1981). This incense burner is a simplified form of an archaic bronze ritual offering vessel called lian. 十七世纪 - 德化窑白釉弦纹如意三足奁式炉 Private collection from Paris - lots from 78 to 127, 219 and 220