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Sculpture of a caricatured Chinese figure wearing a floral garment and black hat. The figure holds a small animal on their lap.

Johann Friedrich Eberlein

Incense Burner in the Form of a Chinese Man,

Description

Maker

  • Meissen Porcelain Manufactory
  • Johann Friedrich Eberlein

Title

Incense Burner in the Form of a Chinese Man

Medium

porcelain

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • Porcelain with enamels,
  • glaze,
  • and gilding

Techniques

  • Porcelain with enamels,
  • glaze,
  • and gilding

Dimensions

15.7 cm (6 3/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

crossed swords in underglaze blue under base;
paper label [48];
paper label No. 2906/2;
2 original holes, one drilled hole indicating once mounted

Place

Place Made: Meissen

Type

  • Ceramics

Credit

Bequest of Miss Lucy T. Aldrich

Object Number

55.173

About

Incense Burner in the Form of a Chinese Man

Trading Earth

Ceramics, Commodities, and Commerce
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Soundwalk

Trading Earth
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The Lucy Truman Aldrich Collection of European Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century

crossed swords in underglaze blue under base;
paper label [48];
paper label No. 2906/2;
2 original holes, one drilled hole indicating once mounted

Place Made: Meissen

Projects & Publications

Publications

Soundwalk

Trading Earth
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Trading Earth

Ceramics, Commodities, and Commerce
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Arlene Shechet Interviewed by Judith Tannenbaum

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The Lucy Truman Aldrich Collection of European Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Trading Earth

April 9, 2022 - July 20, 2025

Arlene Shechet

January 17 - July 6, 2014

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in Copyright. This object is Incense Burner in the Form of a Chinese Man with the accession number of 55.173. To request new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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