Incense Burner in the Shape of a Lotus Flower

CultureChinese

DateTang dynasty (618-906 C.E.)

MediumSilver

DimensionsOverall: 6 × 3 5/8 × 12 3/4 inches (15.24 × 9.21 × 32.39 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number35-124/9

On View

On view

Gallery Location

Collections

East Asian Art

Terms

DescriptionIncense burner in shape of lotus flower with lotus leaf base, long handle. Small receptacle for incense powder in shape of lotus flower. Lid of incense burner later restoration.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

China Institute, New York. April 27 - June 1951.

Chinese Art Under the Mongols, Yale University Art Gallery, 1968-1969; Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Cleveland Museum of Art, October 1 - November 24, 1968; Asia House Gallery, New York

Provenance

Purchased through Laurence Sickman by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1935.

Published References

Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Silver On The Occasion of The Silver Anniversary Of China Institute In America (New York: 1951.), 4 (repro.).

Sherman E. Lee, Wai-kam Ho, Chinese Art Under the Mongols: Yuan Dynasty, 1279-1368, (Cleveland Cleveland Museum of Art; Press of Case Western Reserve University, 1968), no. 33g (repro.).

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), 93 (repro.).

Laurence Sickman, “Simplicity and Subtlety: The Decorative Arts in China” Apollo, special issue for the Asian art collection in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Vol. XCVII, no. 133 (March 1973), 60, no. 5 (repro.).

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