Incense Burner
1736-1795 (made)
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Incense burner with cover, cloisonne enamels on copper with gilding. The outside is decorated with foliage and scrolls on a blue and black ground. It has two handles in the form of birds.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Cloisonne enamels on copper with gilding |
| Brief description | Incense burner, cloisonne enamel on copper, Qianlong period (1736-1795) |
| Physical description | Incense burner with cover, cloisonne enamels on copper with gilding. The outside is decorated with foliage and scrolls on a blue and black ground. It has two handles in the form of birds. |
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| Object history | Purchased from Professor Stockbauer (Nuremberg), accessioned in 1876. This acquisition information reflects that found in the Asia Department registers, as part of a 2022 provenance research project. According to the original acquisition record in the museum's archive, the object came from 'the Summer Palace, Pekin', which refers to the imperial summer retreat Yuanming Yuan, north of Beijing, which was was plundered and destroyed by British and French troops during the Second Opium War in 1860. Whether this object came from the Yuanming Yuan is impossible to verify, and the archive papers do not explain how it came to be in Germany. |
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| Accession number | 257-1876 |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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