Perfume Burner

Details

• Title

  Perfume Burner

• Artist/maker

  probably Desiderio da Firenze (active 1532 - 1545) (caster)

• Associated place

  Europe › Italy › Veneto › Padova (Padua) › Padua (place of creation)

• Date

  c. 1540 - 1550

• Material and technique

  bronze, with traces of gilding

• Object type

  container › cosmetic-container › cosmetic-vessel › perfume-holder;

  sculpture › figure

• 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)

  more

• No. of items

  1

• 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.

• Museum location

  Second floor | Gallery 56 | Arts of the Renaissance

• Museum department

  Western Art

• Accession no.

  WA2004.1

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