【Period】:Eastern Jin dynasty
【CAT】 :Porcelain
【Size】 :Height 11.6cm, mouth diameter 5.2cm, base diameter 10.5cm
Excavated from an Eastern Jin tomb in the Niangniang Hill at Taowu in Jiangning District of Nanjing. Collected by the Nanjing Municipal Museum.
Made of coarse paste, this porcelain utensil has a bluish gray body. The two brown-glazed aroma utensils have the same structure: a censer, a bearing column, and a bearing plate. The censer above is in the shape of a sphere with a restrained mouth, a round lip, and a swelling belly. On the upper part of the belly are three rows of hollowed-out triangles. The bearing column is a short cylinder, while the bearing plate has an open mouth, an everted and wide rim, a wall that turns slightly outwards, and a flat bottom with a round hole. Around the mouth of the bearing plate, a circle of bowstring patterns is engraved. As a whole, the utensil has a delicate shape.