incense-burner BM-PDF-A.34

Period:Qing dynasty Production date:1800-1900
Materials:stoneware
Technique:glazed

Dimensions:Diameter: 164 millimetres (base) Diameter: 206 millimetres (mouth) Height: 140 millimetres Width: 253 millimetres Depth: 212 millimetres

Description:
Ge type stoneware incense burner in the form of an ancient bronze gui with swelling body, high foot, and two handles at sides in form of gui dragons. The incense burner has a grey body covered in thin, blue-grey glaze with two layers of crackle, the main layer stained black and the minor layer ginger. Where exposed, body has turned brownish in firing. There is an inscription on the base. The foot is glazed, and the foot rim and base are unglazed.
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Comments:Published PDF date : Qing 18thC Room 95 label text:PDF A34Incense burner with guan-type glaze and inscriptionThis incense burner is modelled on an ancient Chinese food offering vessel called a gui. After the publication of illustrated books showing such vessels the forms were adapted for burning incense. The inscription incised into the base can be read as 程道 具造 佛前供奉 (Cheng Daoju zao. Fo qian gong feng ‘Made by Cheng Daoju for offering before the Buddha’.)Stoneware with guan-type crackled glazeGuan-type wareProbably Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮 Qing dynasty, about AD 1800–1900 PDF A34仿官釉銘文香爐此簋式爐造型仿古代中國食器簋。伴隨印有這類古器圖書籍的刊行流通，器物功能轉變為香爐。外底銘記“程道具造佛前供俸”（ 意為程道具造，用以供奉在佛像前）。炻器，仿官開片釉仿官窯器可能是江西省景德鎮清代，約1800-1900年