A small bronze incense burner in shape of an archaic ding with a globular body and two lion head handles, below the rim running dragons on leiwen in cast relief. At the base a cast apocryphal Xuande six-character mark. Ming dynasty. At the base the collector's number in 29 in white ink and the transcription of the nianhao in an antiquated German transliteration in black ink, inside the clipping from the Heberle auction catalogue.