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Incense Burner

CultureChinese
DateTang dynasty (618-906 C.E.)
MediumEarthenware with lead glaze
DimensionsOverall: 7 × 3 3/4 inches (17.78 × 9.53 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number34-160 A,B
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 229
Collections
DescriptionThree-color burner, partly unglazed. Elaborate openwork design covered with rosettes, sun faces. brown, and white.Provenance

Purchased through Laurence Sickman by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1934.

Published References

Ross E. Taggart, George L. McKenna, and Marc F. Wilson, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. II, Art of the Orient. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 80 (repro.).

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