yuan Longquan gossip grain furnace with three legs

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gossip grain is one of the yuan, Ming and qing porcelain decorative patterns, for typical religious ornamentation. It symbolize heaven, earth, thunder, wind, water, fire, mountain, ze eight kinds of natural phenomena, after gradually was extended to represent auspicious. Gossip grain began in the yuan dynasty, see more at longquan celadon celadon. Three feet furnace is one of the most common in the incense burner, usually religious worship, with most are three foot incense burner. “Pot of face tail salivary screen to, there is more than learning embedded furnace sweet”, is the poet lu you in later life. Since the song dynasty, the home and daily living incense become literati, way of life. About the custom of the incense, ancient, goes back to ancient times, people usually need to etiquette, and prior to the ceremony will be in the whole incense, to show jie ya, piety. Incense burner used for ritual vessels, the evolution of the furnace type is also associated with burning incense materials and people to changing lifestyle changes. Early type furnace, much by chow period of bronze yi descended, the earliest porcelain furnace in soochow, common for the furnace, the furnace type before the song dynasty became popular during the song and yuan period furnace with three legs. Use method is placed in a furnace, the lighting or unlit spices, aroma from the furnace to scatter, fills the air around, and faint scent, have the effect of clean air. At court above the temple incense burner and set up by using diffuse the aroma and the cloud of smoke foil bearing the majesty of the emperor, convey reigns, supreme supreme artistic conception.

source: Japan’s important private collections