Perfume burner
Category
Brassware
Date
Unknown
Materials
Brass
Measurements
185 mm (Height); 65 mm (Diameter); 93 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
Iran
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1333846
Summary
Brass perfume burner, Persian. Cup shaped bowl, with delicately pierced and engraved foliage decoration of birds and animals, on a plain stem with pierced central knop on reeded circular base. Circular, domed, hinged lid with finial, similarly decorated. Pierced burner projects from inside centre. Damage to one side.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.