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Perfume Burner Surmounted by a Satyr
Desiderio da Firenze
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York City, United States
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- Title: Perfume Burner Surmounted by a Satyr
- Creator: Desiderio da Firenze
- Date Created: ca. 1540–50
- Physical Dimensions: H. overall 46.5 cm, h. of base 6.9 cm, h. of middle section, including bajonet joint 15.1 cm, h. of cover 25.7 cm.
- Type: Incense burner
- External Link: http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/460456
- Medium: The cover and body are binary bronze (copper and tin, with traces of zinc, iron, nickel, silver, and antimony); the foot is cast in brass (copperzinc alloy with very minor amounts of tin, lead, and the usual copper impurities of iron, nickel, silver, and antimony).
- Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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