Dimensions: 2-5/8" H x 6-3/4" Dia.

Chinese Ming Dynasty Period, Zhengde bronze censer. Chinese Bronze censer tripod censer, of compressed globular body, raised on three cabriole legs, banded on the neck, toward wide opening mouth rim. The exterior carved with lettering inscriptions in shallow relief within ruyi shaped cartouche. All reserved in dark olive-brown hue molded bronze patina. Century antique Chinese Ming Dynasty bronze censer, cast in compressed globular form, short neck to flat open wide rim, raised on three conical short legs, with two loop handles vertically everted on upper lip. The metal patinated to a warm olive-brown tone and some milky blue-green encrustation on interior.

Mark on under base, an embossed four script characters reign mark; Zhengde Reign Period.

Over all in EXCELLENT condition. With normal anomalies in nature, sign of stressed surface, minor scratch & dents. Surface traced wear and or declined to gilding. Normal, consider ages and wear.
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