A GOLD-SPLASHED BRONZE QUATRELOBED INCENSE BURNERZhenshe yongbao mark, 18th century Heavily cast with straight sides rising to a stepped shoulder and a flat everted rim, applied with a pair of loop handles in the form of bamboo issuing leafy branches down the body covered with a profusion of gold splashes, all supported by four similar bamboo-form loop feet, the base with seal mark, hongmu stand and cover. 36cm (14 1/4in) wide. (3). 十八世紀 灑金銅竹節柄海棠式香爐 「珍舍永寶」篆書款 The unusual archaistic form of the present incense burner, modified into an lobed body, may have been based on an earlier design introduced during the later phases of the Ming dynasty as variations to the classic forms of earlier periods; see P.Moss, Documentary Chinese Works of Art in Scholar's Taste , London, 1983, p.232, who mentions that a variety of unusual shapes displaying highly individualistic features were created during the later decades of the Ming dynasty. pare with a related but smaller gold-splashed bronze lobed incense burner, liding , Qing dynasty, which was sold at London, 13 May 2021, lot 84.