Period:Yuan dynasty Production date:1300-1368
Materials:stoneware
Technique:glazed
Dimensions:Diameter: 89 millimetres Height: 71 millimetres
Description:
Stoneware tripod incense burner in form of ancient bronze li with globular body and three tapering legs. The incense burner has a grey body and grey-green glaze with close crackle. The base of the feet are unglazed.
IMG
![图片[1]-incense-burner BM-PDF-A.65-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Yuan dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00385006_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-incense-burner BM-PDF-A.65-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Yuan dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00809240_001.jpg)
![图片[3]-incense-burner BM-PDF-A.65-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Yuan dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00809241_001.jpg)
Comments:Published PDF date : Southern Song 12th-13thC Room 95 label text:PDF A65Tripod incense burnerThis three-legged incense burner is in the form of an ancient ritual bronze food vessel, called a li. It is covered with a pale grey-green glaze. In the Song dynasty, educated men revived interest in antiques and in collecting objects from the past. They published catalogues illustrating historical jades and bronzes. Contemporary Song craftsmen reproduced their shapes in other materials, responding to commissions from wealthy clients. The new users adapted the functions of these objects hence the present tripod would have been used on an altar for burning incense rather than as a vessel connected with offering food to deceased ancestors.Stoneware, porcelain-type, with crackled celadon glazeLongquan ware龍泉窯Longquan region, Zhejiang province 浙江省，龍泉地區Yuan dynasty, about 1280–1320 PDF A65三足爐此三足爐造型源於古代青銅禮器鬲，施淺灰綠色釉。宋代，文人熱衷於古物和金石學，關於青銅與玉器的著作頗豐。這一時期的工匠們也將這些古物的造型應用於不同材質的器物上，以滿足當時富裕階層的需求。新的使用者改變了古物原有的功用，如將此器作為臺案上所用之香爐，而非青銅器中原本用作向去世祖先供奉食物的器皿。炻器，属廣義瓷器，青釉開片龍泉窯浙江省龍泉地區元代，約1280-1300年
Materials:stoneware
Technique:glazed
Dimensions:Diameter: 89 millimetres Height: 71 millimetres
Description:
Stoneware tripod incense burner in form of ancient bronze li with globular body and three tapering legs. The incense burner has a grey body and grey-green glaze with close crackle. The base of the feet are unglazed.
IMG
Comments:Published PDF date : Southern Song 12th-13thC Room 95 label text:PDF A65Tripod incense burnerThis three-legged incense burner is in the form of an ancient ritual bronze food vessel, called a li. It is covered with a pale grey-green glaze. In the Song dynasty, educated men revived interest in antiques and in collecting objects from the past. They published catalogues illustrating historical jades and bronzes. Contemporary Song craftsmen reproduced their shapes in other materials, responding to commissions from wealthy clients. The new users adapted the functions of these objects hence the present tripod would have been used on an altar for burning incense rather than as a vessel connected with offering food to deceased ancestors.Stoneware, porcelain-type, with crackled celadon glazeLongquan ware龍泉窯Longquan region, Zhejiang province 浙江省，龍泉地區Yuan dynasty, about 1280–1320 PDF A65三足爐此三足爐造型源於古代青銅禮器鬲，施淺灰綠色釉。宋代，文人熱衷於古物和金石學，關於青銅與玉器的著作頗豐。這一時期的工匠們也將這些古物的造型應用於不同材質的器物上，以滿足當時富裕階層的需求。新的使用者改變了古物原有的功用，如將此器作為臺案上所用之香爐，而非青銅器中原本用作向去世祖先供奉食物的器皿。炻器，属廣義瓷器，青釉開片龍泉窯浙江省龍泉地區元代，約1280-1300年
© Copyright
The copyright of the article belongs to the author, please keep the original link for reprinting.
THE END
