Incense Boat
This incense boat, called a navicula (Latin for "little boat"), was used to store the incense that was burned as part of many church rituals, including the Mass. The boat has curved dragon-headed handles on the lid for the symbolic protection of the incense, a combination of f...
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Dimitri Schevitch, Paris, before 1906; Sale, Georges Petit, Paris, April 4-7, 1906, no. 205; Octave Pincot, Paris, 1906, by purchase; Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne, 1964, by purchase; Keir Collection (Edmund de Unger), London, 1971, by purchase; Keir Collection Sale, Sotheby's, New York, November 20, 1997, no. 87; Walters Art Museum, 1997, by purchase.
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