Cover for Incense Burner (late 1800s): Art, History and Details
Cover for Incense Burner at the Cleveland Museum of Art: late 1800s, Gilt bronze. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.

Cover for Incense Burner (late 1800s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
This incense burner emulates Chinese porcelain in its glaze and form. A number of prominent ceramicists of the Meiji period explored classical Chinese forms and glazes, even as they also produced stoneware with Japanese-style glazes.
Object facts
- Title: Cover for Incense Burner
- Date: late 1800s
- Culture: Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)
- Type: Ceramic
- Technique: Gilt bronze
- Dimensions: Diameter of mouth: 14.6 cm (5 3/4 in.); Overall: 12.4 cm (4 7/8 in.)
- Collection: Japanese Art
- Department: Japanese Art
- Accession number: 1972.88.b
Collection credit
Gift of Hiroshi Hirota
View the collection record
See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.



