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| Keywords: Italian - Cover for an Incense Burner - Walters 5447.jpg This cover and its pair Walters 54 48 each with three nude young women--possibly the Three Graces--leaning against an urn were for incense burners The perfumed smoke was released through holes piercing the antique-style grotesque masks Many small bronzes had a utilitarian purpose; incense burners were a typical product of bronze casters from Padua However while the figures' proportions modeling and black patina are characteristic of Italian workmanship the elegant conception has much in common with works for the French court Perhaps the sculptor was an Italian working in France between 1570 1590 Renaissance bronze cm 36 8 accession number 54 47 20486 Henry Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters place of origin Paris France Walters Art Museum license Renaissance applied arts in the Walters Art Museum Italian art in the Walters Art Museum Statues of the Three Graces Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
