Incense burner
Category
Brassware
Date
Unknown
Materials
Brass
Measurements
150 x 205 x 135 mm
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1333865.2
Summary
One of a pair of brass incense burners KORO in the form of lotus buds and with lotus buds each side. Handle. Removable lid, lattice with lotus buds on top. Three feet. Lotus bud shaped stand on three feet.In notebook no.6, page 19 (1340945.6) Charles Wade refers to: 'The Blue Room 73. Bronze Incense Burner. Carved stand ‘KORO’' Includes sketch with dimensions.
Provenance
CPW item 72 and 73 Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
References
Wade, 1946: Charles Paget Wade, Contents of Snowshill Manor. Volume 6 The Blue Room, 1946, page 19