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CATALOGUE NOTE
The compactness and relatively small size, combined with superb patination, heavy weight and very refined casting
would all support a Ming dynasty date.
The enduring question as to which of the vast production of bronze incense burners cast with Xuande reign marks are
indeed of the period and which are apocryphal is discussed by Gerard Tsang and Hugh Moss, Arts from the Scholar's
Studio, Hong Kong, 1986, pg. 150, where it is concluded that the textual evidence is unreliable, and that 'accurate
identification ... must therefore rest largely on the wares themselves'.
