Incense burner

Description

Bronze incense burner, decorated on front with a cat pursuing mice around a basket of fruit and on the back with a spider and bamboo, on a rock-work stand with dragons and with a cover surmounted by a hawk dividing a flight of swallows, purchased at the Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1876: Japan, by Suzuki Chokichi, 1875-76

Museum reference

A.1877.4

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Incense burner

Production information

Suzuki Chōkichi, 1848 - 1919, Maker
Japan, East Asia

Date

19th century

Materials

Bronze

Physical description

Bronze

Associations

Purchaser: Thomas Archer
Philadelphia Exhibition

Exhibitions

• Looking East: The Lady Ivy Wu Gallery (29 Jul 2011 - 08 Jun 2014)
  National Museum of Scotland

• Centennial International Exhibition, Philadelphia (1876 - 1876)

References

Tokyo Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan 東京国立博物館 (ed.), Chōsa kenkyū hōkokusho: Onchi zuroku 調査研究報告書 温知図録 (1997), pp. 38-39 [preparatory drawings]

Kurokawa Hiroko 黒川廣子, Yushutsu muke no kogeihin no konseputo to zaigai sakuhin: Kinko wo chushin ni 輸出向けの工芸品のコンセプトと在外作品―金工を中心に [Concepts of Japanese Craftworks in Foreign Countries: Focussing on Metalwork] Studies in Japonisme ジャポニスム研究 35 (2015): 57-66

Jane Wilkinson and Nick Pearce, Harmony & Contrast: A Journey through East Asian Art (National Museums of Scotland, 1996), p.75