2006.170.202.A-B: Mountain-form censer (boshanlu) with tortoise-form base
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2006.170.202.A-B
- Title
- Mountain-form censer (boshanlu) with tortoise-form base
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: 西漢 色釉陶龟座博山爐
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 1st century BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Han dynasty, Western Han period, 206 BCE-9 CE
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/164894
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Earthenware with green and brown lead glazes
- Technique
- Lead glaze
- Dimensions
- H. 25.3 x Diam. 12 cm (9 15/16 x 4 3/4 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [J.J. Lally & Co., New York, July 2001] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (2001-2006), partial gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2006.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Partial gift of the Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation and partial purchase through the Alvan Clark Eastman Bequest Fund
- Accession Year
- 2006
- Object Number
- 2006.170.202.A-B
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Incense burner with conical lid in the form of a forested mountain, hemispherical bowl raised on a short stem, and base in the form of a tortoise with head turned back toward the stem; the cover pierced with small circular openings and molded decoration of human figures and mythical animals, including the legendary hare with mortar and pestle; the stem decorated with molded images of foreigners; red earthenware with lead-fluxed, emerald-green glaze on the cover and lead-fluxed, caramel-brown glaze on receptacle and base, the underside and interior of receptacle unglazed.
- Commentary
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Compare to:
(1) Two-color lead-glazed boshanlu censer with green conical lid and an orange-brown tortoise-shaped base excavated in 1969 from a late Western Han brick tomb in Jiyuan county, Xinxiang city, Henan province. See Wenwu [Cultural Relics] 2 (1973): 51, fig. 10.
(2) Two-color lead-glazed boshanlu censer with green conical lid and orange-brown dish-form base excavated in 1993 from a late Western Han tomb in Ganquan county, Shaanxi province. See Wenwu [Cultural Relics] 5 (2010): 66, fig. 8.
Exhibition History
Subjects and Contexts
- Sedgwick Collection
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