A GOLD-SPLASHED BRONZE 'DRAGON' TRIPOD INCENSE BURNER QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD

robustly cast with a squat compressed globular body resting on three cabriole legs with a central ridge, surmounted by a constricted neck and everted galleried rim, flanked by a pair of heaven-soaring handles cast as a scaly dragon clambering along the rim and rendered with a well-defined spine of bosses, the base centred with an apocryphal four-character Xuande seal mark within a recessed cartouche, the exterior liberally applied with splashes of gold and patinated to a warm copper-brown colour

Sotheby's New York, 17th September 1998, lot 154.

Ma Jinhong, Ming Qing tongqi [Ming and Qing Bronzes], Shanghai, 2004, p. 67, no. 26.
Philip K. Hu, Later Chinese Bronzes - The Saint Louis Art Museum and Robert Kresko Collections, St. Louis, 2008, cat. no. 20.