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 with 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 high (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.