This iridescent green-glazed burner served as a burial ware or ‘mingqi’. The beaker-shaped body has a non-detachable lid with four flanges and a bud-shaped finial.The practice of using lead-glazed burial wares had already started during the Han dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE) and it continued into the Ming period. The custom of burying objects with the deceased stems from the belief in life after death.
