Paired incense burners (censers) with detachable lids
Paired incense burners (censers) with detachable lids
France
The 18th–19th centuries
Bronze, lapis lazuli; carving, polishing, casting, chasing
Height (each) 42.0 cm
Paired vase-shaped incense burners with detachable lids on tripods, set upon trefoil bases with feet. Each vase is globular, carved from lapis lazuli, with gilded bronze openwork rim.
The bodies of the vases are decorated with gilt-bronze swags of flowers and fruits; the lower part of each vase is finished with a gilt-bronze pendant in the shape of a pine cone.
The tripod supports of each incense burner are of gilded bronze. The trefoil lapis lazuli bases are adorned with gilt-bronze corded border and a central rosette. The feet are made of gilded bronze.
1273.1-2MC215&4322/ДПИ