AN EARLY ISLAMIC BRONZE INCENSE BURNER comprising a short sided square base with four columnar feet surmounted by a pyramidal cover pierced with bands of triangles and surmounted by four bird finials flanking a central larger similar, the associated handle attached to one side of tubular form terminating in a highly stylised horse's head, 9th/10th century (slight damage) | Christie's

Lot 216

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AN EARLY ISLAMIC BRONZE INCENSE BURNER comprising a short sided square base with four columnar feet surmounted by a pyramidal cover pierced with bands of triangles and surmounted by four bird finials flanking a central larger similar, the associated handle attached to one side of tubular form terminating in a highly stylised horse's head, 9th/10th century (slight damage)

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AN EARLY ISLAMIC BRONZE INCENSE BURNER comprising a short sided square base with four columnar feet surmounted by a pyramidal cover pierced with bands of triangles and surmounted by four bird finials flanking a central larger similar, the associated handle attached to one side of tubular form terminating in a highly stylised horse's head, 9th/10th century (slight damage)
8¼in. (21cm.) long

Lot Essay

A very similar body in the L. A. Mayer Memorial Institute for Islamic Art, Jerusalem, which lacks the handle seen on the present example, is published in Baer, E.: Metalwork in Medieval Islamic Art, New York, 1983, pl.33, p.48

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