Japan, Bronze Incense Burner And Wooden Base, 20th

Incense burner
Bronze and wooden base
20th
Late Meiji period (1868-1912)
Japan
Incised on one side, an apocryphal date: Bunmei 3 (1471) and an apocryphal dedication: Offered for Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Important bronze incense burner with brown patina, the tall container with a vertical quadrilobed wall resting on a rock, and decorated with two figures in the round of Fudô-Myôô, one isolated, the other surrounded by two disciples and leaning against a flamed mandorla with traces of gilding, surmounted by the sun and the moon. The bottom is decorated with archaic motifs representing stylized cicadas and taotie masks. The base is decorated with two shishi in the round, in full run, their hind legs in the air. The incense burner rests on a carved wooden base decorated with lotus flowers.
Some missing elements including the blades of the swords of the two deities.
Wear of the gilding.