White China porcelain incense burner, Dehua, China, 17th century The rim and the foot are flared while the body, with its domed shape, is flanked by two handles molded in the shape of an archaic dragon head. The bottom and heel are unglazed. Four-character mark in Zhuanshu: Ding shui qi zhen - 丁水奇珍 - "strange wonder of Ding Shui", molded into a square below the base. Wooden base. Height: 8.2 cm; diameter: 10.7 cm Orange box. Small firing defect under a handle. Provenance: E. T. Chow collection, n°475 (Sotheby's, 19 May 1981). This rare mark is listed in The New & Revised Handbook on Marks on Chinese Ceramics under No. 3304 as a Ming mark of Dehua porcelain. 十七世纪 - 德化窑白釉双龙耳香炉 款：丁水奇珍 Parisian private collection - lots from 78 to 127, 219 and 220