Tripod Brazier
1127-1234
Maker Unknown
Asian Art
This three-legged incense burner is in the form of an ancient ritual-bronze food vessel (li). In the Song and Jin dynasties, Confucian scholars revived interest in collecting objects from the past and published catalogues illustrating historical jades and bronzes. Craftsmen often reproduced their shapes in other materials, particularly ceramics, but these vessels would have new functions. This brazier would probably have been used on an altar for burning incense, rather than as a ritual food vessel for offerings to ancestors, as it would have been employed in ancient times.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Vessel
- Formatted Medium
- Jun-ware high-fired ware (stoneware or porcelain)
- Medium
- jun-ware, high-fired, ware, stoneware, porcelain
- Locations
- Place made: Henan, China
- Dynasty
- Jin Dynasty
- Period
- Jin Dynasty
- Dimensions
- 2 3/8 x 2 15/16 in. (6 x 7.5 cm)
- Departments
- Asian Art
- Accession Number
- 32.890a-b
- Credit Line
- Gift of the executors of the Estate of Colonel Michael Friedsam
- Exhibitions
- Infinite Blue, Arts of China
- Rights Statement
- Creative Commons-BY
- Museum Location
- Asian Galleries, West, 2nd floor (China)
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