{"id":4187,"date":"2024-02-26T10:24:12","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T01:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/?p=4187"},"modified":"2024-02-26T10:24:12","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T01:24:12","slug":"stringed-incense-burner-with-shichikan-celadon-porcelain-lion-dog-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/?p=4187","title":{"rendered":"Stringed Incense Burner with Shichikan Celadon Porcelain Lion-dog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Late Ming dynasty, China (17th century)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donated by Sat\u014d Kiyoharu<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a celadon porcelain incense burner, of a type called \u201cShichikan Caledon Porcelain\u201d fired in Longquan kilns in Zhejiang Province. It copies the form of a three-legged bronze vessel as used in ancient China, and the strings on its lid include a mythical lion playing with a ball, known as a <em>tamatori shishi<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Such <em>tamatori shishi<\/em> carry a meaning of the perpetuation of one\u2019s family line, and the fur between the two playing lions, male and female, represent a ball, and this ball of fur is said to give birth to a prodigious lion cub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This item was passed down to the Sat\u014d family of Sakata via Kat\u014d Kageshige, a steward, who had it in his possession as a legacy item from the Sakai family, which ruled the former Sh\u014dnai Domain. The box has the warehouse designation of \u201c2<sup>nd<\/sup> seal, no. 2.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late Ming dynasty, China (17th century)&nbsp; Donated by Sat\u014d Kiyoharu This is a celadon porcelain incense bur&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4188,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187\/revisions\/4188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}