Incense burner with fish-shaped handles in celadon glaze, Yuan dynasty, 13th

Image Number: K1B017710N000000000PAB
Dynasty: Yuan dynasty
Category: Ceramics
Function: Incense set
Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
Description:
It has a long mouth with round edges, a short neck, a flat and round belly, a short circle of feet, and a fish shaped ear on the left and right of the neck. It is installed and fired by the combination of support and cushion, and the inside and outside are coated with blue glaze, with the glaze color of green and gray. The surface of the instrument is covered with brown patterns, and the patterns below the inner mouth of the instrument are light. There is a shrunk glaze mark in the center of the inner sole, with five studs around it, and there are six branch marks in the outer sole. There is no glaze at the foot end, exposing a dark gray matrix. Compared with the objects unearthed from Ren’s Tomb in Qingpu County, Shanghai, this work is relatively short and flat, and the body is not decorated with strings. The similar objects in the Antique Painting Volume (1728) collected by the British Museum show that this kind of fish ear stove was often equipped with a wooden cover and a jade top in the process of passing down from generation to generation.