Incense Burner with Brocade Pattern

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