Urn with a pair of Fo dog candlesticks Object.

Format:

• Image

Contributor:

• Nantucket Historical Association, owner.

Language:

No linguistic content

Subjects (All):

• Buddhism.
• Burial.
• Candles.
• Enamel and enameling.
• Exports.
• Flowers.
• Funeral rites and ceremonies.
• Porcelain.
• Religion.
• Temples.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Production:

[Place of production not identified] : [producer not identified], [approximately 1804]

Summary:

Porcelain decorated in underglaze sepia with overglaze red, green, blue, sepia, and gilding. The urn design had its origin in late sixteenth-century Europe and was a popular Wedgewood form in the eighteenth century. The two candlesticks represent the renewed popularity in curiosities and mantle ornaments. This pair is modelled after the monumental Dogs of Fo that quarded Buddhist temples and rites of the domestic altar.

Notes:

• Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from 'From Brant Point to the Boca Tigris: Nantucket and the China Trade' by Michael A Jehle, Nantucket Historical Association, 1994.
• Title from publisher's website.