A BRONZE TRIPOD INCENSE BURNER LATE MING – EARLY QING DYNASTY

cast with a deep globular body rising to a constricted neck and an everted mouth, the bombé body tapering into three short legs, the rim surmounted by a pair of arched upright handles fashioned as twisted cords, cast with an apocryphal six-character Xuande mark, the bronze patinated to a variegated warm caramel-brown colour