A XUANDE MARKED BROWN PATINA BRONZE INCENSE-BURNER China,...

A XUANDE MARKED BROWN PATINA BRONZE INCENSE-BURNER
China, Qing Dynasty, Likely 18th century
With a compressed globular body, three short feet and two raised handles. The below inscribed with an apocryphal six-character mark of Emperor Xuande.
H: 7,8 cm - w: 12 cm
Weight: 750 grams

Provenance:
> Private collection;
> Señor Jorge Casares, Buenos Aires, Argentina, a reputed ornithologist born in a wealthy landowning family, also a relative of the renowned Argentinian fiction author Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914-1999) and a fellow of W.H. Hudson (1921-1982), an Argentinian-borned British Naturalist and Ornithologist. He is praised to have donated his library to the Sociedad Ornitológica del Plata.