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Incense Burner

Incense Burner

early 1400s
(1403-1424)
iron inlaid with gold and silver
Overall: 16.5 x 15.2 cm (6 1/2 x 6 in.)
The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 1983.154
Location: 237 Himalayan

Description

This incense burner with gold and silver inlay has three dragon-head handles. Its main body is decorated with flowers placed in round fields formed by a winding creeper. The perforated cover is decorated with a dragon. The lotus bud on the top is used as a handle.
  • ?–1983
    (David Tremayne, Ltd., London, England, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1983–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Turner, Evan H. “Year in Review for 1983.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 71, no. 2 (February 1984): 38–79. Mentioned: no. 250, pp. 62 and 77; Reproduced: Mentioned: no. 250, p. 62 www.jstor.org
  • Defining Yongle: Imperial Art in Early Fifteenth-Century China. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (April 1-July 10, 2005).
    The Year in Review for 1983. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 22-April 8, 1984).
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1983.154