Incense Box

1791 (Modern)

14.6 cm 9.2 cm

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Shaped like a small church with domes, this box is divided on the inside into three compartments for storing incense used during the liturgy. The Lamb of God on the lid symbolizes Jesus Christ. A dedicatory inscription explains that the box was presented in 1791 by two women,...

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Lucy Arnold Stephenson, Baltimore, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1952, by bequest.
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en
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