PROVENANCE: From Audubon, New Orleans Private Collector. Dimensions: Heigth: 24.8 cm, Diameter: 35.2 cm Chinese Ming Dynasty Blue and White Dragon Incense Burner. Potted in shallow vessel form, thick and deep, globular body, wide central interior, round mouth lip with emerging mythical head, raised with three elephant legs. Hand painted ornamentations are rendered in clean white base color which contrast against blue fine color, depicted of imperial five claws dragon flying careening through cumulus clouds above thrashing Li-shui waves. The glaze has smooth texture and moisturizing, glossy quality. Which attracting unceasingly admiration.The underside unglazed, revealed the pale-creme ground revealed and dark greyish brown spotted firing marks and edge-cut foot rim.