Unknown Artist
- Title
- Censer on three feet
- Place of origin
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China
- Period
- Tang dynasty 618 - 907 → China
- Year
- 0618-0907
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- earthenware with green glaze
- Dimensions
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9.6 x 10.0cm; 9.3cm diam. of rim
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Mr Sydney Cooper 1962
- Accession number
- EC59.1962
- Location
- Lower Asian gallery
- Further information
The sides of this jar are ornamented with horizontally grooved lines and the vessel is supported on three small shaped feet. This may well be a ceramic model of an incense-jar in bronze or other metal. Other examples are known with lids.
Jackie Menzies, 'Early Chinese Art', AGNSW, 1983. cat. no. XXXVI
- Bibliography (2)
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Jackie Menzies (Australia) (Author), Early Chinese Art, Sydney, 1983, (illus.) not paginated. cat.no. XXXVI. See 'Further Information' for text.
Mr V V W Fretwell (Australia) (Compilator), Mr L G Harrison (Australia) (Compilator), Ivan McMeekin (Australia, b.1919, d.1993) (Compilator), J. Hepburn Myrtle (Australia, b.1911, d.1998) (Compilator), Chinese ceramics, Sydney, 1965, 18, 36 (illus.). cat.no. 23, plate no. 5
- Exhibition history (2)
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Chinese Ceramics, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 11 Aug 1965–12 Sep 1965.
Early Chinese art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 26 Feb 1983–08 May 1983.
