Incense Burner | Yale University Art Gallery

16th–17th century

Not on view

Medium: Bronze with decoration of gold flecks
Dimensions: Height × width over handles × diameter of mouth: 3 × 5 1/2 × 4 3/16 in. (7.6 × 14 × 10.6 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of J. Watson Webb, B.A. 1907, and Electra Havemeyer Webb
Accession Number: 1940.137
Geography: China
Culture: Chinese
Period: Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

James Watson Webb II (1884–1960) and Electra Havemeyer Webb (1888–1960), New York; gift in 1940 to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

David Ake Sensabaugh, The Scholar as Collector: Chinese Art at Yale, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2004), 11, 42, no. 12.

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Additional information

Object/Work type

incense burners

Xuande (1425-1435)

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