Compare with similar Dehua lion-mask censers with apocryphal Chenghua marks, illustrated by P. Donnelly, Blanc de Chine, pl. 10 b and c; a censer from the Garner collection, illustrated by S. Jenyns, Ming Pottery and Porcelain, pl. 116B; and another from the Percival David collection, illustrated by Hobson and Hetherington, The Art of the Chinese Potter, pl. CVII, fig. 2. Also, compare two Kangxi examples from the Edward T. Chow collection, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 19 May 1981, lot 485, with an impressed Xuande seal mark; and lot 486, impressed with a Chenghua mark.