Incense burner with lid: C.15 & A-1985

Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Maker: Unknown

Entities

Incense burner with lid
Covered vessel

Categories

Hard-paste porcelain

Description

Hard-paste porcelain decorated underglaze in blue, in enamel colours and gold in Imari style. The vessel is oval shaped with two handles, four feet, and a lion finial surrounded by modelled petals on the cover. On each side there is a spray of flowers and foliage which continues onto the cover; one flower on each side and two on the cover have pierced centres. Round the edge of the base there is a petal border. The handles, the lion, and the upper rim of the vessel are gilt. The base is unglazed.

Numbered roku (six) inside the body in unglazed blue, and inside the lid in iron red.

Legal notes

Bequeathed by A. H. Palmer, Esq

Measurements and weight

Height: 16.6 cm
Width: 20 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1985) by Palmer, A. H.

School or Style

Components of the work

Handles, Lion, Rim composed of gilt
Cover

Materials used in production

blue Underglaze colour
Enamel
Hard-paste porcelain

Techniques used in production

Enamelling
Underglaze

Identification numbers

Accession number: C.15 & A-1985
Primary reference Number: 140133
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 12 October 2020

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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