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Incense Burner

early 1400s

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China, Yongle Period

(1403-1424)

Iron inlaid with gold and silver

Overall: 16.5 x 15.2 cm (6 1/2 x 6 in.)

The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 1983.154.a

Location

237 Himalayan

Provenance

?–1983

(David Tremayne, Ltd., London, England, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1983–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Turner, Evan H. “Year in Review for 1983.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 71, no. 2 (1984): 38–79. Mentioned: no. 250, pp. 62 and 77; Reproduced: Mentioned: no. 250, p. 62 www.jstor.org

Exhibition history

The Year in Review for 1983. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 22-April 8, 1984).

Defining Yongle: Imperial Art in Early Fifteenth-Century China. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (April 1-July 10, 2005).