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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2006.170.236.A-B
Title
Mountain-form censer (boshanlu)
Other Titles
Original Language Title: 東晋至南朝 青瓷博山爐
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
5th-6th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Northern and Southern Dynasties period, 420-589
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/182529

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Stoneware with celadon glaze
Technique
Celadon
Dimensions
H. 31.4 x Diam. 21 cm (12 3/8 x 8 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Sotheby's, New York, 22 March 2000, lot. 82] sold; to Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, Woodside, CA (2000-2006), 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 Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for Asian Art
Accession Year
2006
Object Number
2006.170.236.A-B
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Incense burner with cover in the form of a mountain peak, bowl-shaped receptacle supported on a short cylindrical stem, and attached circular tray with vertical sides as the base; the cover pierced with small circular openings and decorated in high relief with representations of hills with vertical striations and appliques of animals and reptilian beasts; light gray stoneware with pale yellow-green celadon glaze. Place of manufacture uncertain, probably from southern China.
Commentary
Compare to:
Celadon mountain-form censer of related attributed to the Eastern Jin period (317-420) excavated in 2012 at Tianlong temple, Yuhai district, Nanjing. See Willow Weilan Hai, ed., Art in a Time of Chaos: Masterworks from Six Dynasties China, 3rd-6th Centuries (New York: China Institute of America, 2016), cat. 8, p. 227.
(2) Celadon mountain-form censer of different shape and size but with similar hill-form appliques with vertical striations excavated from a Southern Dynasties (420-589) tomb in Chengguan town, Jian’ou, Fujian province, now in the Jian’ou Museum. See Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji [Complete Collection of Chinese Ceramics Unearthed in China], vol. 11: Fujian (Beijing: Kexue chubanshe, 2008), no. 35.

Publication History

  • Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, auct. cat., Sotheby's, New York (New York, March 22, 2000), lot 82

Exhibition History

Subjects and Contexts

  • Sedgwick Collection

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