Incense-burner
BackDescription:
Spherical incense burner made of two hemispheres shaped by hammering and turned on a lathe. Both parts are decorated with a large band divided in three panels containing pseudo-kufic knots separated by palmette roundels. The top of the hemispheres is decorated with a roundel divided into six panels shaped like petals which contain arabesques. Made of brass inlaid with sheet silver and gold, gimbals is missing.
Object type: | incense-burner |
Museum number: | 1882,0321.20 |
School/style: | Veneto-Saracenic Style |
Culture/period: | Mamluk dynasty |
Date: | 15thC |
Production place: | Made in: Syria (possibly) |
Findspot: | Found/Acquired: Syria |
Materials: | brass, silver, gold |
Technique: | engraved, inlaid, hammered, lathe-turned |
Dimensions: | Diameter: 10.90 cm |
Location: | 10 |
Acquisition names: | Donated by: Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks |
Acquisition date: | 1882 |
Curator's comments:
On the origin of this type of metalware: D. Behrens-Abouseif, "Veneto-Saracenic Metalware, a Mamluk Art", Mamluk Studies Review 9 (2005) 147-172.
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