Incense Burner with Brocade Pattern

Description Exhibitions Provenance Credit

Description This cloisonné covered "koro" (incense burner) has applied cloisonné handles and finial. It is decorated with designs of small paintings from nature, chrysanthemums, and "takara-mono" "precious things- symbols of wealth, longevity, wisdom, beauty, harmony, purity, and protection from ill-omen.

Exhibitions

Japanese Cloisonne Enamels. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1996-0.

Provenance Stephen W. Fisher [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1995, by gift.

Credit Gift of Stephen W. Fisher, 1995

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Creator

Takahara Komajiro (Japanese) (Enameler)

Period

1880-1889 (Meiji)

Medium

gilt-wire cloisonné enamel
(Enamels)

Accession Number

44.696

Measurements

5 x 5 1/2 in. (12.7 x 13.97 cm) (h. x diam.)

Geographies

Japan, Kyoto (Place of Origin)

Location Within Museum

Not On View