po shan lun.
/ˌpəʊ ʃan ˈluː/, U.S. /ˌpoʊ ˌʃɑn ˈlu/ A type of Chinese bronze censer, made during the Han dynasty and having the form of a mythical mountain of immortality.
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1915 R. L. Hobson Chinese Pottery & Porcelain I. ii. 12 Fig. 3 is an incense burner... It is a variation of the more usual ‘hill censer’ (po shan lu).
1954 S. H. Hansford Gloss. Chinese Art & Archæol. 13 Po shan lu, hill censer; censer shaped as a stem cup with cover in the form of a mountain peak.
1973 Genius of China 104/2 Bronze censer in the shape of a cosmic mountain po-shan-lu, held up by a man seated on a monster.
1993 Bull. School Oriental & Afr. Stud. 56 170/1 The reader will find a great deal of reliable information, whether it be on the boshanlu, on cosmic mirrors,..and much else.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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