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Incense burner
Incense burner

Incense burner

Object PlaceChina
Medium/TechniqueCloisonné
Credit LineBequest of Mrs. Martin Brimmer
Accession number06.2443a-b
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ClassificationsDecorative arts
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ProvenanceOctober 18, 1860, looted from the Yuanming Yuan ("Old Summer Palace"), Beijing, during the Second Opium War by Charles William Carrington (b. 1828 - d. 1918), Hove, England [see note 1]; 1870, sold by Carrington to John Hubbard Sturgis (b. 1834 - d. 1888), Boston; between 1870 and 1873, passed from Sturgis to Martin Brimmer (b. 1829 - d. 1896), Boston; to his widow, Mary Anne Timmins Brimmer (b. 1827 - d. 1906), Boston; 1906, bequest of Mrs. Martin Brimmer to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 8, 1906)

NOTES:
[1] As attested in both an undated note and a letter to John Sturgis (August 2, 1870) written by Carrington, who was a British officer. In October 1860, British and French forces burned the Yuanming Yuan and took its contents as spoils of war.