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Tripod Brazier

Asian Art

On View: Asian Galleries, West, 2nd floor (China)
This three-legged incense burner is in the form of an ancient ritual-bronze food vessel (li). In the Song and Jin dynasties, Confucian scholars revived interest in collecting objects from the past and published catalogues illustrating historical jades and bronzes. Craftsmen often reproduced their shapes in other materials, particularly ceramics, but these vessels would have new functions. This brazier would probably have been used on an altar for burning incense, rather than as a ritual food vessel for offerings to ancestors, as it would have been employed in ancient times.
MEDIUM Jun-ware high-fired ware (stoneware or porcelain)
  • Place Made: Henan, China
  • DATES 1127-1234
    DYNASTY Jin Dynasty
    PERIOD Jin Dynasty
    DIMENSIONS 2 3/8 x 2 15/16 in. (6 x 7.5 cm)  (show scale)
    COLLECTIONS Asian Art
    ACCESSION NUMBER 32.890a-b
    CREDIT LINE Gift of the executors of the Estate of Colonel Michael Friedsam
    MUSEUM LOCATION This item is on view in Asian Galleries, West, 2nd floor (China)
    CAPTION Tripod Brazier, 1127-1234. Jun-ware high-fired ware (stoneware or porcelain), 2 3/8 x 2 15/16 in. (6 x 7.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the executors of the Estate of Colonel Michael Friedsam, 32.890a-b. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 32.890a_bw.jpg)
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     <em>Tripod Brazier</em>, 1127-1234. Jun-ware high-fired ware (stoneware or porcelain), 2 3/8 x 2 15/16 in. (6 x 7.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the executors of the Estate of Colonel Michael Friedsam, 32.890a-b. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 32.890a_bw.jpg)