Incense burner

Object Details

• Description

  Thick-walled cylindrical incense burner. Translucent light green celadon glaze, except for the lowest part of the footrim and inside the foot, which are unglazed. On the outer surface, an incised simplified peony design framed by a trellis pattern border above and a hatched border below.

• Label

  This incense burner, probably made for use in a temple, was found in Indonesia. In its use of celadon glaze over a porcelain rather than stoneware body, it distantly echoes the wares made at the imperial workshop in Jingdezhen, but this object is obviously of lesser quality and a mass-produced, commercial ware. It may have been made at a private workshop in Jingdezhen, but other ceramic centers in coastal southern China also produced similar objects.

• Provenance

  From 1971-1975 to 1994

  Sherry Peters Matz, Arlington, VA, acquired in Indonesia in 1971-1975 [1]

  From 1994

  Freer Gallery of Art, given by Sherry Peters Matz and children in 1994

  Notes:

  [1] According to Curatorial Note 6, Louise Cort, February 9, 2011, in the object record.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Shades of Green and Blue: Chinese Celadon Ceramics (July 15, 1997 to September 7, 2004)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Mrs. Sherry Peter Matz

• Origin

  Fujian province, China

• Credit Line

  Gift of Sherry Peters Matz and children

• Type

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

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• Date

  1800s, 1910s

• Name

  Matz, Sherry Peter

• Place

  China, Fujian province

• Topic

  Porcelain, Art, Peony, Chinese Art, Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911), Incense, Ceramics, Zhangzhou ware

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)