Design for an Incense Burner
date: label: Date
content: late 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Incense burner shaped like an altar lamp supported by two boughs ending with foreparts of two eagles as handles. Rose festoons are suspended from these and a winged female mask. Friezes surround the shoulder and lower neck. The upper neck is fluted behind a ring with a laurel garland. A putto with tambourine sits on top of the cover. Ovoidal tray supported by knobs at the bottom.
place: label: made in
content: France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1911-28-153
objectType: label: Type
content: ornament
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and black, brown ink, black crayon, graphite on cream paper
label: Dimensions
content: 41 × 27.6 cm (16 1/8 × 10 7/8 in.)