A SILVER CENSER

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A SILVER CENSER
BYZANTINE, PROBABLY 6TH CENTURY

With an inscription in Greek around the upper edge.
In an excavated state; several cracks and losses around the body; the lining and suspension chains later.
5 3/8in. (13.7cm.) high
Provenance
See lot 39.
Literature
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
E.C. Dodd, Byzantine Silver Treasures, Bern, 1973, pp. 7-13, no. 3 Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery, Silver from Early Byzantium: The Kaper Koraon and Related Treasures, 1986, nos. 33, 44-6, 85

Lot Essay

Censers dating from this early period are among the less common types of silver treasure to survive. A somewhat comparable censer is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Baltimore, op. cit., no. 85), while a related lamp is in the Abegg-Stiftung at Riggisberg (Dodd, loc. cit., Baltimore, op. cit., no. 33). The style of the figures of saints is close to that of a group of plaques also in the Metropolitan (Baltimore, op. cit., nos. 44-6).

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