香港佳士得1999年11月2日，編號799

琺瑯見些許填補，與其時代特徵相符，尤見雙耳與爐身連接處及近足處。琺瑯另見淺磕。足底見些許小磕。口沿見細微磕痕及淺磕。鎏金見些許磨損。
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It is interesting to note that cloisonné enameling technique appears to reach its peak very rapidly in the fifteenth century, and fine examples are rare. In particular, the well-controlled enamel tones on the present vessel reveal all the classic characteristics of the zenith of the technique, with crisply isolated cells of enamels within well-gilded cloisons. 

A relatively small number of similar incense burners are known, compare two of the same form and decoration, with with applied animal-masks surmounting the legs, one from the Avery Brundage Collection, now in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, included in the exhibition Cloisonné. Chinese Enamels from the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, Bard Graduate Center, New York, 2011, cat. no. 23, and another, with its cover, illustrated in Chinese Cloisonné. The Pierre Uldry Collection, The Asia Soci♉ety🎀 Galleries, New York, 1989, cat. no. 15.

Further related censers of this t🐓ype include two examples with raised bosses below the rim, sold at Christie's New York, 26th March 2003, lot 60, and Christie's London, 15th December 1983, lot 353.  A further example, formerly in the Palmer Museum of Art, was sold at Sotheby's New York, 23rd March 2004, lot 525.