Lot 343 Dα

A bronze incense burner. Ming dynasty or later

Of round shape, the cylindrical body with a horizontal ridge around the body and with two lion head handles. At the flat base an apocryphal Xuande six-character mark in a recessed square panel, heavily ground down. Reworked green and brown speckled patina.
Height 10.7 cm; width 15.4 cm