A bronze incense burner, ding


Neitan Jiaoshe four-character mark, 17th century Of compressed globular form, elegantly supported on three tapering feet, surmounted by a pair of loop handles, the underside with a medallion of two five-clawed dragons encircling the four-character mark. 20.5cm (8 1/8in) wide.
|十七世紀 銅沖耳三足爐「內壇郊社」楷書鑄款Provenance: an English private collection, acquired before 1957, and thence by descent來源： 英國私人收藏，購自1957年前，並由後人保存迄今Compare with a related bronze incense burner with the same mark and similar decoration of dragons, Ming dynasty, in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Splendors from the Yongle and Xuande Reigns of China's Ming Dynasty: Selected Artifacts, Beijing, 2010, no.154.