Incense Burner (early 1400s): Art, History and Details
Incense Burner at the Cleveland Museum of Art: early 1400s, iron inlaid with gold and silver. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Incense Burner (early 1400s) 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 with gold and silver inlay has three dragon-head handles. Its main body is decorated with flowers placed in round fields formed by a winding creeper. The perforated cover is decorated with a dragon. The lotus bud on the top is used as a handle.
Object facts
- Title: Incense Burner
- Date: early 1400s
- Culture: China, Yongle Period (1403-1424)
- Type: Metalwork
- Technique: iron inlaid with gold and silver
- Dimensions: Overall: 16.5 x 15.2 cm (6 1/2 x 6 in.)
- Collection: Tibetan Art
- Department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Accession number: 1983.154
Collection credit
The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
Further reading listed by the museum
- Turner, Evan H. “Year in Review for 1983.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 71, no. 2 (February 1984): 38–79.
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