Harvard Art Museums > 2006.170.236.A-B: Mountain-form censer (boshanlu) Vessels Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Mountain-form censer (boshanlu) , 2006.170.236.A-B,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 22, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/182529. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. 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 Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. 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 Earthly Delights: 6,000 Years of Asian Ceramics, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/21/2022 - 08/14/2022 Subjects and Contexts Sedgwick Collection Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
