Greenware funerary jar with spouts for holding incense

Details

• Title

  Greenware funerary jar with spouts for holding incense

• Associated place

  Asia › China › Zhejiang province › Longquan kilns (place of creation)

• Date

  12th century - 1st half of the 13th century
  Song Dynasty (AD 960 - 1279)

• Material and technique

  stoneware, with incised decoration under a green celadon glaze; spouts mould-made or hand-modelled, and luted to the jar; unglazed base; unglazed rim

• Material index

  processed material › ceramic › pottery › stoneware

• Technique index

  marked › incised;

  formed › moulded;

  formed › modelled;

  luted;

  glazed

• Object type

  container › holder › incense-holder;

  religious/ritual equipment › funerary equipment › burial-pot

• Dimensions

  13 cm (height)
  10.5 cm (diameter)
  at foot 6.2 cm (diameter)

• No. of items

  1

• Credit line

  Presented by Sir Herbert Ingram, 1956.

• Museum location

  Second floor | Gallery 38 | China from AD 800

• Museum department

  Eastern Art

• Accession no.

  EA1956.461

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