Incense Burner in the Form of a Pagoda

1800-1890 (Qing dynasty (1644-1911))

30.5 cm 73.5 cm 21.9 cm

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This incense burner is in the form of a pagoda. Evolved from the Indian stupa structure, pagodas are tall multi-roofed buildings that originally housed relics of the Buddha or another venerated person. This jade model of one, however, is made to burn incense. Buddhists regard...

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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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