Perfume Burner Surmounted by a Satyr
Desiderio da Firenze
ca. 1540–50 · The cover and body are binary bronze (copper and tin, with traces of zinc, iron, nickel, silver, and antimony); the foot is cast in brass (copperzinc alloy with very minor amounts of tin, lead, and the usual copper impurities of iron, nickel, silver, and antimony). · Robert Lehman Collection
- Artist
- Desiderio da Firenze
- Date
- ca. 1540–50
- Medium
- The cover and body are binary bronze (copper and tin, with traces of zinc, iron, nickel, silver, and antimony); the foot is cast in brass (copperzinc alloy with very minor amounts of tin, lead, and the usual copper impurities of iron, nickel, silver, and antimony).
- Department
- Robert Lehman Collection
- Credit line
- Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
