Unknown Artist
Censer on three feet
- Location
- Lower Asian gallery
- Further information
The sides of this jar are ornamented with horizontally grooved lines and the vessel is supported on three small shaped feet. This may well be a ceramic model of an incense-jar in bronze or other metal. Other examples are known with lids.
Jackie Menzies, 'Early Chinese Art', AGNSW, 1983. cat. no. XXXVI
- Place of origin
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China
- Period
- China: Tang dynasty 618–907
- Year
- 0618-0907
- Media
- Ceramic
- Medium
- earthenware with green glaze
- Dimensions
- 9.3cm diam. of mouth; 9.6 x 10.0cm
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Mr Sydney Cooper 1962
- Accession number
- EC59.1962
