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Collection Online as of December 13, 2025

Incense Burner

1200–1250

Syria, Ayyubid Period, 13th Century

brass inlaid with silver
Overall: 10.6 cm (4 3/16 in.); Diameter of ridge at base: 8.8 cm (3 7/16 in.); Diameter of ridge at rim: 8.2 cm (3 1/4 in.)
Edward L. Whittemore Fund 1937.26
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

This footed vessel is wearing shoes.
  • ?–1937
    (Mme Paul [Marguerite] Mallon [d. 1977], New York, NY, and Paris, France, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1937–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Hollis, Howard C. “An Arabic Censer.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 25, no. 7 (July 1938): 137–138. Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 137–138 www.jstor.org
    "Clay Cuboid Incense Burners of the Islamic Period." Bulletin of the Research Center for Silk Roadology シルクロ-ド学研究 25 (2009) 101.
    Graves, Margaret S. Arts of Allusion: Object, Ornament, and Architecture in Medieval Islam. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2018. Reproduced: p. 80, fig. 2.13
    Luyster, Amanda. Bringing the Holy Land Home: The Crusades, Chertsey Abbey, and the Reconstruction of a Medieval Masterpiece. Turnhout: Harvey Miller / Brepols, 2023. Mentioned: p. 216; reproduced: p. 218, fig. 94
  • {{cite web|title=Incense Burner|url=false|author=|year=1200–1250|access-date=13 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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