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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.

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Cover for Incense Burner (late 1800s; Cleveland 1972.88.b)
Cleveland Museum of Art; Gift of Hiroshi Hirota · CC0 1.0 / Public Domain

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.

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