Tripod Incense Burner
name: label: Donor Name
content: Harold I. Sewall
notes: label: Notes
content: From Card: "Kyoto faience of buff color covered with creamy glaze crackled. Decorated under the glaze with a landscape in pale blue. Kinkozan 1800."
label: Notes
content: The catalog card for EL3926 and page 157 of Loan Ledger A both state that the specimen, a tripod ceramic incense burner, was returned to Mrs. Sewall in 1916. However, the catalog card for ET50 and EL3926 bear identical descriptions, attributing the piece to Kinkozan and its place of origin as Kyoto. We believe that the piece actually returned to Mrs. Sewall was EL3901, also an incense burner with 3 legs, but of Satsuma faience. According to its catalog card, that piece was given to the Sewalls by Field Marshall Oyama, dates from 1750, and is highly decorated. It is more likely that they would have requested the return of this piece, given its history, than EL3926. Note that the ledger entry for EL3901 is on the top of page 156 and EL3926 is on the top of page 157. It is likely that a withdrawal entry intended for EL3901 was made on the next page by mistake and the information copied onto the catalog card. Therefore, we believe that ET50-0 is EL3926 and EL3901 was returned to the Sewalls in 1916.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kyoto, Japan, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Japanese
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 010548
label: USNM Number
content: EL3926-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Incense Burner
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 8.9 cm
label: Diameter - Object
content: 13 cm