A Chinese Dehua white-glazed 'Marco Polo' censer, cover, and stand

The octagonal censer is decorated with four scroll-shaped handles, the body moulded with registers of scrolling lotus, prunus, and foliage, all standing on eight cabriole feet. The pierced cover is decorated with prunus scroll and a floral spray to the centre surmounted by upright lotus buds. The stand is decorated with an impressed lotus design to the centre, and the raised walls are decorated with floral scroll surmounted by eight lotus bud knops and standing on ruyi-head feet.

Catalogue notes: Compare an almost identical censer from the E. T Chow collection and then the Peter and Nancy Thompson collection which was sold at Christie's South Kensington, 8 April 2014, lot 17, and another from the collection of Richard Lehman Grey also with a lengthy prestigious provenance sold at Sotheby's New York, 13-14 September 2016, lot 288.