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May 19, 2008
May 19, 2008
May 19, 2008
May 19, 2008
Incense Burner and Stand for an Altar Cross
Incense Burner and Stand for an Altar Cross
1150–75
Bronze: cast, gilded, engraved, and chased
Overall: 18.1 x 12.7 cm (7 1/8 x 5 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1926.555
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This object may been have created for a traveling court with its entourage to use for Catholic Mass, where incense could be used in an easily transportable vessel.
Description
Supported by dragon-shaped feet on its corners, this unusual object is fashioned like a small, centralized church with gabled roofs, a lantern crowned by a turret, and four semi-circular apses. Traces of soot on the interior walls of a nearly identical object in the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin indicate that these objects once served as incense burners. The objects’ design with an open turret in the center of the roof further suggests that they may have doubled as stands for altar crosses. The fact that both objects formerly belonged to the Bouvier Collection in Amiens may be taken as an indication that they were made as a pair in the same 12th-century workshop.
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