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Censer, China, 16th century, Other
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APA
Nourane Ben Azzouna, . (n.d.). Censer, China, 16th century, Other (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3997
Chicago
Nourane Ben Azzouna. n.d. “Censer, China, 16th century, Other.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3997
MLA
Nourane Ben Azzouna. Censer, China, 16th Century, Other, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/3997
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- China_NBA_04
- Author
- Nourane Ben Azzouna
- Date
- 16th century
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Approximate
- Place of Production
- China
- Present Location
- The Frankel Collection, New York
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Devotional text
- Type of Object
- object\censer
- Writing Surface
- ceramic
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- circular
- Size (of the object)
- 19.7 cm diam. ; 15.9 cm height
- Layout (Epigraphy & Objects)
- 1 line
- Technique
- painted
- Instrument
- brush
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Shape
- circular
- Internal Structure
- stacked
- Groups of Characters Baseline
- irregular undulations
- Presence of Elongation
- absent
- Ligature
- Conventional - curvilinear
- Shading / Contrast
- medium contrast
Letter Morphology
- Point
- inclined square
Ascenders
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- circular ascending tail
- rā' zā' descenders
- rā'/zā' - angular horizontal tail
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- deep bowl ending in ascending wave
denticles
- initial and medial bāʾ tāʾthāʾ nūn yāʾ denticles
- initial perpendicular to baseline
counters
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- rounded head