Boshanlu censer, 1st-2nd century, 11 3/4 x 7 in. ( x cm), Earthenware with green glaze, China, 1st-2nd century, Censers were common to altar tables where special incenses were burned in a variety of rituals. Those made in the form of a sacred mountain like this one may have had Daoist connotations. Made of pottery, it imitates a more expensive bronze original

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