34. RARE BRÛLE-PARFUM EN PORCELAINE BLEU BLANC Marque et époque Longqing (1567-1572) A RARE BLUE AND WHITE CENSER AND COVER Longqing six-character mark and of the period Of compressed round shape supported on a straight foot, the rim set with a pair of animal mask handles, painted around the body in varying shades of deep blue with flowers and shrubs issuing from rockwork, the cover with a central opening in the form of two conjoined coins, similarly decorated, wood stand. 12.8cm (5in) diam. (3). 明隆慶 青花獸耳蓋爐 「大明隆慶年製」款 Provenance: Collection of Consul General Heinrich Betz (1873-1957), acquired in China before 1945, thence by descent to this son, Erwin Betz (Tianjin 1907-Bonn 1982) Nagel, 14 May 1999, lot 1209a 來源： 德國前駐華總領事Heinrich Betz（1873-1957年）珍藏，於1945年前得自中國，後傳至其子Erwin Betz（1907生於天津，1982年逝於伯恩） 納高拍賣行，1999年5月14日，編號1209a Compare a similarly shaped censer without its cover dated to the Wanli/Tianqi period in the Butler Collection, published in Teresa Canepa and Katharine Butler, Leaping the Dragon Gate: The Sir Michael Butler Collection of 17th-Century Chinese Porcelain, London, 2021, no.II.1.28, p.82. Compare also with an incense burner with decoration of the Eight Immortals, dated 1571, from the collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, accession-no. 1979.783.