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Creator.Personal Name: Unknown. Description: three-footed crazed porcelain incense burner with openwork metal lid and floral design; unmarked. Subject: Incense burners and containers—Japan. Subject: Pottery, Japanese. Style.Period: Contemporary. Material.Medium: ceramic (material) Measurements: diameter 3 1/4 in., height 2 5/8 in. Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.) Rights: C. J. Campbell. Record Type: work. |
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Creator.Personal Name: 照雲. Creator.Personal Name: Shōun. Description: bronze incense burner shaped like a reclining deer; artist's signature on bottom. Subject: Incense burners and containers—Japan. Subject: Bronzes, Japanese. Style.Period: Contemporary. Material.Medium: bronze. Measurements: width 7 in., depth 3 1/4 in., height 5 1/2 in. Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.) Rights: C. J. Campbell. Record Type: work. |
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Creator.Personal Name: 白峰. Creator.Personal Name: Hakuhō. Description: two-handled, tripod bronze incense burner with a lion-dog finial; artist's seal on bottom. Subject: Incense burners and containers—Japan. Subject: Bronzes, Japanese. Style.Period: Contemporary. Material.Medium: bronze. Measurements: diameter 4 in., height 6 in. Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.) Rights: C. J. Campbell. Record Type: work. See another example of Hakuhō's work. |
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Creator.Personal Name: Unidentified. Description: three-footed aka-raku incense burner; unidentified mark on bottom; the characters for Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha (佛法僧) are inscribed around the sides in tensho script. Subject: Incense burners and containers—Japan. Subject: Pottery, Japanese. Style.Period: Contemporary. Material.Medium: ceramic (material) Measurements: diameter 2.9 in., height 1.6 in. Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.) Rights: C. J. Campbell. Record Type: work. |
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Creator.Personal Name: Unidentified. Description: three-footed sometsuke 染付 porcelain incense burner; white background with blue overglaze chrysanthemums and butterflies; unidentified mark on bottom. Subject: Incense burners and containers—Japan. Subject: Pottery, Japanese. Style.Period: Contemporary. Material.Medium: ceramic (material) Measurements: diameter 4.4 in., height 3.25 in. Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.) Rights: C. J. Campbell. Record Type: work. |
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Creator.Personal Name: Unidentified. Description: three-footed porcelain Kyo-yaki incense burner with a pierced lid; blue design of the "three friends in winter" (歳寒三友: the pine, plum, and bamboo) on white background; Kutani mark on bottom Subject: Incense burners and containers—Japan. Subject: Pottery, Japanese. Style.Period: Contemporary. Material.Medium: ceramic (material) Measurements: diameter 2.8 in., height 3.4 in. Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.) Rights: C. J. Campbell. Record Type: work. |
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Creator.Personal Name: Robert Briggs. Description: glazed raku incense burner with a pierced lid; artist's signature and date on bottom. Date: 2010. Subject: Incense burners and containers—United States. Subject: Pottery, Japanese. Style.Period: Contemporary. Material.Medium: ceramic (material) Measurements: diameter 4 1/8 in., height 3 3/4 in. Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.) Rights: C. J. Campbell. Record Type: work. Photo of the artist: ![]() Artist's web site: Corvus Moon Ceramic Arts. |
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伊藤順康, 1957- Creator.Personal Name: Itō Nobuyasu, 1957- Description: silvery white with black "oil spot" glazed yuteki tenmoku (油滴天目) incense burner shaped like a stylized chicken and with a pierced lid; artist's seal on bottom; with signed tomobako. Subject: Incense burners and containers—Japan. Subject: Pottery, Japanese. Style.Period: Contemporary. Material.Medium: ceramic (material) Measurements: width 7.13 in., height 7 in. Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.) Rights: C. J. Campbell. Record Type: work. |
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Creator.Personal Name: 隆光. Creator.Personal Name: Ryūkō. Description: three-footed hexagonal blue and white Kutani ware (九谷焼) incense burner with a pierced lid and shishi finial; artist's mark on bottom reads: 九谷隆光; with signed tomobako. Subject: Incense burners and containers—Japan. Subject: Pottery, Japanese. Style.Period: Contemporary. Material.Medium: ceramic (material) Measurements: width 3.8 in., height 5.5 in. Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.) Rights: C. J. Campbell. Record Type: work. |
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Creator.Personal Name: Unknown. Description: three-footed globular Celadon porcelain incense burner with a pierced lid; design of flying cranes and chrysanthemums; artist's mark on bottom. Subject: Incense burners and containers—Japan. Subject: Pottery, Japanese. Style.Period: Contemporary. Material.Medium: ceramic (material) Measurements: width 4.1 in., height 3.9 in. Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.) Rights: C. J. Campbell. Record Type: work. |
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Creator.Personal Name: Unknown. Description: bronze elephant incense burner with a pierced lid shaped like a chrysanthemum. Subject: Incense burners and containers—Japan. Subject: Bronzes, Japanese. Style.Period: Contemporary. Material.Medium: bronze. Measurements: length 6 1/4 in., width 4 1/2 in., height 7 1/2 in. Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.) Rights: C. J. Campbell. Record Type: work. |
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Creator.Personal Name: 洋山. Creator.Personal Name: Yōzan. Description: glazed polychrome Kutani porcelain incense burner with a floral design on a detailed aochibu (raised dots) background; signed Kutani Yōzan 九谷洋山 on bottom. Subject: Incense burners and containers—Japan. Subject: Pottery, Japanese. Style.Period: Modern. Material.Medium: ceramic (material) Measurements: width 3.8 in., height 4.7 in. Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.) Rights: C. J. Campbell. Record Type: work. See also a matching incense case by Yōzan. |
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Creator.Personal Name: Unidentified. Description: shishi 獅子 (temple lion) shaped incense burner; gray-white stoneware with translucent and green glaze; signed on bottom. Subject: Incense burners and containers—Japan. Subject: Pottery, Japanese. Style.Period: Modern. Material.Medium: ceramic (material) Measurements: length 5 1/2 in., width 4 1/4 in., height 6 in. Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.) Rights: C. J. Campbell. Record Type: work. |
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Creator.Personal Name: Unknown. Description: milky white Hirado porcelain goose incense burner; unmarked. Subject: Incense burners and containers—Japan. Subject: Pottery, Japanese. Style.Period: Modern. Material.Medium: ceramic (material) Measurements: length 3 in., height 2 in. Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.) Rights: C. J. Campbell. Record Type: work. |
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Creator.Personal Name: 白峰. Creator.Personal Name: Hakuhō. Description: two-handled, tripod bronze incense burner with a lion-dog finial; artist's seal on bottom. Subject: Incense burners and containers—Japan. Subject: Bronzes, Japanese. Style.Period: Contemporary. Material.Medium: bronze. Measurements: diameter 4 in., height 7.6 in. Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.) Rights: C. J. Campbell. Record Type: work. |
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Creator: Unknown. Description: three-footed, cylindrical Celadon glazed Kutani ware ( 九谷焼 kutaniyaki) porcelain incense burner with gradations of colors depicting mountain ranges in the morning mist; mark on bottom. Subject: Incense burners and containers—Japan. Subject: Pottery, Japanese. Style.Period: Contemporary. Material.Medium: ceramic (material). Measurements: diameter 3.75 in., height 4.75 in. Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.) Rights: C. J. Campbell. Record Type: work. |
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Creator: 三枝惣太郎,
1911- Creator: Saegusa Sōtarō, 1911- Description: three-footed, bulbous blue porcelain incense burner with a copper wire mesh lid; mark on bottom. Subject: Incense burners and containers—Japan. Subject: Pottery, Japanese. Style.Period: Contemporary. Material.Medium: ceramic (material). Measurements: diameter 4.9 in., height 3.7 in. Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.) Rights: C. J. Campbell. Record Type: work. |
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Creator: 吉村楽入. Creator: Yoshimura Rakunyū. Description: shishi 獅子 (temple lion) shaped incense burner of glazed aka-raku ceramic ware; mark on bottom. Subject: Incense burners and containers—Japan. Subject: Pottery, Japanese. Style.Period: Contemporary. Material.Medium: ceramic (material). Measurements: width 4.7 in., length 3.7 in., height 5.5 in. Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.) Rights: C. J. Campbell. Record Type: work. |
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Creator: Unknown. Description: hexagonal Kutani incense burner with aote* overglaze depicting birds in a tree; typical Kutani fuku mark 福 in tensho script on bottom. Subject: Incense burners and containers—Japan. Subject: Pottery, Japanese. Style.Period: Contemporary. Material.Medium: ceramic (material). Measurements: width 3.3 in., height 6.2 in. Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.) Rights: C. J. Campbell. Record Type: work. * Aote 青手 is one of the traditional styles of Ko-Kutani (old Kutani) that uses four colors—green, yellow, purple and dark blue—in painting on porcelain. |
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九谷美陶園. Creator.Corporate Name: Kutani Bitouen Co. (Kaga, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan) Description: square Kutani incense burner with iroe gosaite* overglaze depicting a fruiting plant; mark on bottom. Subject: Incense burners and containers—Japan. Subject: Pottery, Japanese. Style.Period: Contemporary. Material.Medium: ceramic (material). Measurements: width 2.7 in., height 3.6 in. Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.) Rights: C. J. Campbell. Record Type: work. * Iroe Gosaite 色絵五彩手 is one of the traditional styles of Ko-Kutani (old Kutani) that uses five colors—green, yellow, purple, dark blue, and red—in painting on porcelain. |
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杉原一壺. Creator.Personal Name: Sugihara Ikko. Description: triangular double-walled Arita ware white porcelain (hakuji) incense burner with reticulated sides and lid; mark on interior of lid; with signed tomobako. Subject: Incense burners and containers—Japan. Subject: Pottery, Japanese. Style.Period: Contemporary. Material.Medium: ceramic (material). Measurements: width 5.4 in., height 5.1 in. Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.) Rights: C. J. Campbell. Record Type: work. See another example by Sugihara Ikko. |
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Creator.Personal Name: 晏正. Creator.Personal Name: Yasumasa. Description: glazed Arita ware white porcelain (hakuji) incense burner with incised floral pattern; mark on bottom; with tomobako. Subject: Incense burners and containers—Japan. Subject: Pottery, Japanese. Style.Period: Contemporary. Material.Medium: ceramic (material). Measurements: width 6 in., height 5.25 in. Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.) Rights: C. J. Campbell. Record Type: work. |
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Creator.Personal Name: Unknown. Description: ceramic incense burner with red copper glaze (shinsha); unmarked. Subject: Incense burners and containers—Japan. Subject: Pottery, Japanese. Style.Period: Contemporary. Material.Medium: ceramic (material). Measurements: diameter 2.5 in., height 3.3 in. Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.) Rights: C. J. Campbell. Record Type: work. |
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Creator.Corporate Name: 香蘭社. Creator.Corporate Name: Kōransha. Description: green glazed cylindrical Akita ware porcelain incense burner with gold and red overglaze phoenix design; mark on bottom: Kōransha 香蘭社. Subject: Incense burners and containers—Japan. Subject: Pottery, Japanese. Style.Period: Contemporary. Material.Medium: ceramic (material). Measurements: diameter 3 in., height 4.3 in. Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.) Rights: C. J. Campbell. Record Type: work. |
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Creator.Personal Name: Yoshio? Description: green glazed porcelain incense burner with the three wise monkeys (三猿)* and flowering tree design; mark on bottom; with tomobako. Subject: Incense burners and containers—Japan. Subject: Pottery, Japanese. Style.Period: Contemporary. Material.Medium: ceramic (material). Measurements: diameter 4.3 in., height 5.3 in. Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.) Rights: C. J. Campbell. Record Type: work. * The 3 wise monkeys depict the proverb "See no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil," mizaru, kikazaru, iwazaru 見ざる, 聞かざる,言わざる. The finial depicts a mother monkey and her baby. |
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杉原一壺. Creator.Personal Name: Sugihara Ikko. Description: glazed Hirado style hakuji porcelain incense burner with openwork sides; mark on bottom and the lid's interior. Subject: Incense burners and containers—Japan. Subject: Pottery, Japanese. Style.Period: Contemporary. Material.Medium: ceramic (material). Measurements: 3 7/8 in. square, height 5 in. Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.) Rights: C. J. Campbell. Record Type: work. See another example by Sugihara Ikko. |
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熊本幸平. Creator.Personal Name: Kumamoto Kōhei. Description: unglazed incense burner with pierced work; mark on bottom; with tomobako. Subject: Incense burners and containers—Japan. Subject: Pottery, Japanese. Style.Period: Contemporary. Material.Medium: ceramic (material). Measurements: 2.6 in. diameter, height 6.1 in. Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.) Rights: C. J. Campbell. Record Type: work. |
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Creator.Personal Name: Unidentified. Description: glazed white porcelain incense burner with handles and pierced work sides; lid is pierced work metal with floral design; mark on bottom. Subject: Incense burners and containers—Japan. Subject: Pottery, Japanese. Style.Period: Contemporary. Material.Medium: ceramic (material). Measurements: 5.2 in. diameter, height 5 in. Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.) Rights: C. J. Campbell. Record Type: work. |
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