A CHINESE BRONZE TRIPOD INCENSE BURNER SIX CHARACTER XUANDE MARK AND POSSIBLY OF THE PERIOD With...

A CHINESE BRONZE TRIPOD INCENSE BURNER SIX CHARACTER XUANDE MARK AND POSSIBLY OF THE PERIOD With a compressed circular body with two loop handles rising from the rim, the surface with a warm brown patina and encrustations, 13cm, 1.5kg. Provenance: by repute from the collection of a British diplomat acquired in the 1920s. Cf. The Forbidden City Gazette 3, 2015, p.72 for a comparable incense burner dating to the Xuande period.