Object Details Description Originally this item was a long-necked bottle. The neck was broken off and repaired to serve as an incense burner. Globular shape with silver rim and pierced copper cover.

Description Round, flat mold-formed stand with three feet. Top surface irregularly contoured, with three small circular depressions, roughly corresponding to the location of feet on underside, ...

Saffron was used as a burned incense, but was also valued as a yellow dye--as seen in a display at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles in a recent exhibit on ancient alchemy and color.

An ornate, cylindrical incense burner, or censer, dating from as early as 500CE, has been returned to the government of Mexico by Crystal Orlando, a private citizen in Austin, Texas.

Your Artstor image groups were copied to Workspace. The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Open: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Incense Burner of Amir Saif al-Dunya wa’... Incense Burner of ...