Need help to decipher Chinese? mark on bronze censer.

I have not been able to fiqure this mark, I checked all my sources. Sorry for the photos, these were the ones given to me. Is the seal in the correct direction? Another question has any one seen another censer of this type with four feet, all the ones I've seen are tripod, also this one has four bulges at each quadrant which I have not seen on another one. Any help appreciated.

 

Thank you for the call out.

 

How big is it? What material is it made of?

 

Sorry to say, that does not look like Chinese, Japanese or Korean to me. Nor does it fit with ancient forms of the languages like Seal Script or Bone Script either.
I'll see if I can cross-reference a few other languages.

 

Well, upon further inspection, though I still can't read it, I can see similarities in the 'writing' to that of Seal Script which is one of many ancient Chinese writing forms, however, I'd say if it is that, then it has had some styling choices of making the lines rather geometric which has the result in making it quite hard to read, as it also blends strokes together which would normally remain separate.

Therefore, I cannot say for certain it is that, only that some portions of it do resemble that.

 

Okay, found it... Well, I should say, I believe I've found it.

Excerpt from Wikipedia.
The vertical Phags-pa script is known as horyig (ཧོར་ཡིག་ hor-yig, "Mongolian letters"). A more ornamental version of the horyig style was used in the past to make personal seals. It is often found written vertically as opposed to horizontally.

 

This Chinese piece at the British Museum is clearly quite different, but does have four feet, as well as being slightly lobed:

https://research.britishmuseum.org/...px?partid=1&assetid=808071001&objectid=252705







~Cheryl

 

That one is a Xuande Deming Incense Burner.
年宣大契德明

 

I believe the orientation should be like this image I'm including.


Horyig is explained in the name, hor means Mongolian and yig means writing. This is a specialized script style devised for the used of seals across both Mongolia and Tibet during the 13th century.

This neo-Mongolian/Tibetan script is always arranged in vertical columns. There are two widths of seal script, wide and narrow. From left to right the example shows the name ‘Horyig’ in columns of wide, narrow and as one single column in the wide formation.

 

Thank you for your help, much depreciated.