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Eight Auspicious Gifts Tibetan Incense Burner - 6"
Hand-made and signed by the Artist!
This exquisite burner is part of our collection of Tibetan Incense Burners handcrafted by De Baun Fine Ceramics. The eight auspicious gifts of symbols of the Buddha (known in Sanskrit as Ashtamangala) is soaked in rich spiritual symbolism. Legend has it that at the time of Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha) all heavenly beings united and offered him these divine gifts. This remarkable burner, 6" in diameter, beautifully displays each gift or symbol surrounding a radiant lotus. Each piece is hand made and Raku fired by artist Diane De Baun. Especially design to hold thick, Tibetan-style incense sticks, Diane has designed this burner with a unique "pin" hole at the bottom to help remove the remaining incense after a stick has burned. Diane has been producing fine ceramics since the 80's. Each piece that we offer in the fine collection is signed by Diane.
About the Artist and her work:
The products in this fine collection have all been created by artist Diane De Baun. She has been working with clay since the early 80’s. Each piece is hand-built either by the technique of coil, or slab. In addition each piece is raku fired. They are all individually made and fired so that each creation is unique. The artist signs each piece. Most of the designs are original and made into stamps. Some are wooden stamps made by Buddhists, and some are commercially produced stamps.
The firing technique that Diane uses is known as "Raku" which originated in Japan in the 16th century. Raku as known today is a quick 1 to 3 hour low-fire firing. After the quick firing it is taken out of the kiln red-hot with tongs and put into a container with combustible materials and then covered.
For her color pallet, Diane uses copper carbonate, cobalt, silver nitrate, and a variety of mason stains.
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