Censer

1498 (Early Modern) Overall H with chain: 28 3/4 in. (73 cm); Body H: 10 x Diam: 4 9/16 in. (25.4 x 11.6 cm); Hanger H: 2 11/16 x Diam: 3 1/4 in. (6.8 x 8.3 cm) Citation Source image

This censer made in Germany is typical of the style popular in western Europe at the end of the fifteenth century. The intersecting raised bands mimic the complex vaulting systems used in late Gothic churches, and the openwork areas are reminiscent of the tracery found in the...

Artifact

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9570
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Frédéric Spitzer, Paris, by purchase; Sale, Paul Chevallier and Charles Mannheim, April 17, 1893, no. 347; Charles Borradaile, Brighton, by purchase; George Robinson Harding, London, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1912, by purchase.
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