Tripod-shaped incense burner

Object Details

• Description

  Clay: off-white and brown clays, marbled.

  Glaze: thin clear glaze.

• Provenance

  To 1976

  Mr. Irving H. and Mrs. Mae W. Jurow, to 1976

  From 1976

  Freer Gallery of Art, given by Mr. Irving H. and Mrs. Mae W. Jurow in 1976 [1]

  Notes:

  [1] The object was transferred from the Freer Study Collection to the Freer Permanent Collection on May 22, 1987 (see Curatorial Note 7, Kate Theimer, June 13, 1995, in object record).

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Black and White: Chinese Ceramics from the 10th-14th Centuries (December 18, 2004 to November 7, 2010)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Mr. Irving H. and Mrs. Mae W. Jurow

• Origin

  Jiaozuo, Henan province, China

• Credit Line

  Gift of Irving and Mae Jurow

• Type

  Vessel

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• Date

  1200s, 1300s

• Name

  Jurow, Irving H. and Mrs. Mae W.

• Place

  Jiaozuo, China, Henan province

• Topic

  Art, Cizhou ware, Stoneware, Chinese Art, Incense, Yuan dynasty (1279 - 1368)

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)