A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE 'LUDUAN' CENSER AND COVER.A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE 'LUDUAN' CENSER AND COVER. Late Ming Dynasty. The beast's horned head forms the cover, with smoke vents through the nose, ears and mouth lined with fangs, moulded a curved tail and painted with cash and ruyi heads to the sides of the corpulent body, standing four-square on short feet, contained in a wood box, 14cm H. (4) Provenance: formerly from a Japanese private collection. 明晚期 青花繪甪端香蓋爐 來源：日本私人收藏。 A similar piece designated as from the Tianqi period (1621-1627) is illustrated in Butler and Wang, Seventeenth Century Jingdezhen Porcelain from the Shanghai Museum and the Butler Collection, 2006, no 130, pp 340-341.