Incense burner
Category
Brassware
Date
Unknown
Materials
Brass
Measurements
100 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
Iran
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1333878
Summary
Persian incense ball, pierced brass floral decoration to each half. Two hinged hemispheres held with a hook catch, open to reveal three suspended ring gimbals to keep the small burner vessel, missing from the centre, upright.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.