Seonamsa Temple Gilt-bronze Incense Burner

An incense burner is an implement used in temples to burn incense, symbolising the cleansing of the mind's impurities. This piece has a wide rim around the mouth and takes the typical form of such vessels, with a bowl-shaped body and a trumpet-shaped pedestal. The body is carved with swastika motifs and Sanskrit characters set within gear-like toothed roundels, and lotus petals are arranged below, lending a religious atmosphere. The pedestal is trumpet-shaped, wide at the bottom and narrowing towards the top, giving a sense of stability. Ornate patterning is avoided on the body and on the wide rim around the mouth; restrained decoration expresses elegance instead, and the well-balanced proportion of height to width gives an overall impression of stability.

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Where it is

Region

Suncheon, Jeonnam & Gwangju

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산