Western Han boshanlu at Ben Janssens Oriental Art

With the spread of religion and the development of the Silk Road during the Han Dynasty (206BC-220AD), Chinese works of art began to develop widely in terms of geography and form.

This Western Han (206BC-9AD) censer is of a type known as boshanlu or ‘mountain censer’ modelled a…

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