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Incense burner with Persian inscription
This incense burner illustrates the cultural and artistic interaction between the Islamic world and Ming China. Its squat tripod form and rope-shaped handles hark back to fourteenth-century Chinese archaistic bronzes. The Persian poem around its shoulder, however, indicates that it was made for a Muslim patron residing in China. The inlaid cartouche on the base dates this censer to 1451–52 (AH 855) or 1598–99 (AH 1007) if read inverted
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