Tripod Brazier
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
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.
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)
Collection
Collection
Title
Tripod Brazier
Date
1127–1234
Dynasty
Jin Dynasty
Period
Jin Dynasty
Geography
Place made: Henan, China
Medium
Jun-ware high-fired ware (stoneware or porcelain)
Classification
Dimensions
2 3/8 x 2 15/16 in. (6 x 7.5 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the executors of the Estate of Colonel Michael Friedsam
Accession Number
32.890a-b
Rights
Creative Commons-BY
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