Gjuten med Xuandes märke i botten. Ovalt med maskaronhänklar, genombrutet lock med dekor av fenixfåglar och femkloade drakar jagandes pärlan. Runt om livet mytologiska djur. Längd 33 cm. Höjd 32,5 cm.
En vinge avbruen. Ett morrhår saknas. Slitage.
See a related bronze censer sold at Bonhams, Fine Chinese Art, Thursday, May 2015, lot 71,
Compare a similar covered incense burner with design of dragons, phoenix and sea cratrues, illustrated by P. K. Hu, Later Chinese Bronzes, Tha Saint Louis Art Museum and Robert E Kresko Collections, Saint Louis, 2008, pp. 100-101, no. 18.
Also see a related covered rectangular incesnse burner, illustrated by C. Brown and A. Gully, eds China's Renaissance in Bronze: The Robert H. Clague Collection of Later Chinese Bronzes 1100-1900, 1993, p. 111, no 21.