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Yue stoneware boshanlu censer with bird finial
Yue stoneware boshanlu censer with bird finial
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Yue stoneware boshanlu censer with bird finial and brown spots Late Western Jin dynasty (c.300 A.D.)
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Yue stoneware boshanlu censer with bird finial
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BATEA : 19
Simple name
censer
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ceramic; stoneware; Yue; celadon; Jin; bird; animal; censer; China; boshanlu; 4th century; burial; Penglai; Daoist; immortal;
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A Yue brown-spotted boshanlu censer, the plain base section a heavily potted deep saucer with an inner ridge, in which the incense container sits on a pedestal, the cover with three rings of four stylised petalled mountain peaks each hiding one circular aperture, the extreme top surmounted by a small bird. The whole cover is covered by a yellowish glassy celadon glaze of Yue type with brown spots, the cover also impressed with stars under the glaze. From a Zhejiang province kiln, probably the Shanglinhu kiln.
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stoneware
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some repairs to the stylised mountain tops
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yellowish green glaze and brown spots
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20.3cm (overall)
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16.5cm (base)
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4th century AD
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Western Jin
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China
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Probably Shanglinhu
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