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).