Chinese Famille Verte Porcelain Censer. Of slightly compressed-spherical shape with a waisted neck, rising to an everted rim, applied with a pair of beast handles, painted around the body with a continuous scenes of two dragons chasing flaming pearl, against black ground glaze, all supported on a raised splayed foot, accompanied by a wooden cover and stand. {Width: 6 1/4 inches (16 cm)}. Provenance:Collection of Mary Margaret and Col. Wilbur Haven, who were assigned as US liaison to the Chinese government in Nanjing, their collection mostly acquired in the mid 1940s, and thence by descent within the family.