Incense Burner
1500-1600 (made)
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Spherical incense-burner in two identical halves, brass with pierced holes and engraved decoration in radial panels of half-palmettes and cruciforms
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Brass, pierced and engraved, silver inlay now lost |
| Brief description | Middle East, Metalwork. Spherical incense-burner in two identical halves, brass with pierced holes and engraved decoration in radial panels of half-palmettes and cruciforms, possibly Egypt or Syria, 1500-1600 |
| Physical description | Spherical incense-burner in two identical halves, brass with pierced holes and engraved decoration in radial panels of half-palmettes and cruciforms |
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| Production | Attributed to Muslim craftsmen working in Venice. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Sylvia Auld, Renaissance Venice, Islam and Mahmud the Kurd. A metalworking enigma, 2004, no.1.34, p.131. |
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| Accession number | 1541:1, 2-1856 |
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| Record created | March 11, 2003 |
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