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(Maker)
Gilt-bronze censer, cast and supported on four cabriole legs, rising to an everted five-lobed rim, pierced through the sides with monster-face brackets suspending chains between each leg. The body is shaped like a five petalled flower flower with vertical sides.
History note: Unknown before testator
Bequeathed by E. Maurice B Ingram. 1941. Received 1942
Height: 13.3 cm
Width: 25 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1941)
by
Ingram, Edward Maurice Berkeley
Tang Dynasty (618-907)
Circa
0618
-
907
0907
Accession number: O.3-1942
Primary reference Number: 77488
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77488 Accessed: 2021-12-07 20:37:41
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