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Details
- Other Title
- Tripod censer ('ding')
- Place where the work was made
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Jingdezhen
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Jiangxi Province
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China
- Period
- Wanli 1573 - 1619 → Ming dynasty 1368 - 1644 → China
- Date
- early 17th century
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- porcelain with underglaze blue decoration
- Dimensions
- 11.0 x 8.7 cm
- Credit
- Gift from the J.H. Myrtle Collection 2000
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 133.2000
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Jingdezhen ware
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This incense burner is decorated with two five-clawed dragons frolicking with a flaming pearl amongst clouds and flames, beneath a narrow scroll border and above a wave base. The three legs bear animal faces above beast claws. The design is based on a legend of the dragon having nine sons which emerged in the Ming dynasty. One of the nine sons is named Suanni who resembles a lion and enjoys smoke, and thus appears often as a motif on incense burners.
Asian Art Department, AGNSW, January 2012
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Places
Where the work was made
Jingdezhen
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Exhibition history
Shown in 4 exhibitions
Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, The Ceramic Society of Australia, Sydney, 12 Nov 1951–24 Nov 1951
Dragon (2012), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 18 Jan 2012–06 May 2012
Conversations through the Asian collections, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 25 Oct 2014–13 Mar 2016
Glorious, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 May 2017–06 Jan 2019
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Jackie Menzies (Editor), The Asian Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'The Marvel of Porcelain', Sydney, 2003, 121 (colour illus.).
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Editor Unknown (Editor), Chinese pottery and porcelain, Sydney, 1951. cat.no. 65
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