Minneapolis Institute of Art

Boshanlu censer

China

Date

1st–2nd century

Medium

Earthenware with green glaze

Department

Asian Art

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Censers were common to altar tables where special incenses were burned in a variety of rituals. Those made in the form of a sacred mountain like this one may have had Daoist connotations. Made of pottery, it imitates a more expensive bronze original. China, Asia

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