Perfume Burner
On display
Details
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Title
Perfume Burner
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Artist/maker
probably Desiderio da Firenze (active 1532 - 1545) (caster) -
Associated place
Padua (place of creation) -
Date
c. 1540 - 1550 -
Material and technique
bronze, with traces of gilding
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Object type
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Dimensions
51.2 cm (height)
base section 10.7 cm (height)
base section at rim 18.7 cm (diameter)
central section 16.6 cm (height)
central section at rim 14.2 cm (diameter)
upper section 26.9 cm (height) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased (France, Madan, Russell, Bouch and Miller Funds) with the aid of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Art Fund (with a contribution from the Wolfson Foundation), the Friends of the Ashmolean, the Elias Ashmolean Group, Mr Phillip Wagner, and other private benefactors, 2004.
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Museum location
Second floor | Gallery 56 | Arts of the Renaissance -
Museum department
Western Art
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Accession no.
WA2004.1
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Further reading
Warren, Jeremy, Vol 1 Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum Publications, 2014), pp. 196 - 206 no. 50
Christopher Brown, ‘The Burlington Magazine, Acquisitions (1998-2014) at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford’, 1139, (2014), ---, illus. p. 719
