Censer Frame with Inhabited Vine Scroll

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6th century · Copper alloy · Medieval Art

The cavorting putti in the vine scroll represent the good life and may be associated with the retinue of Dionysos, the classical god of wine. Fragrant incense would have been burned on hot coals in the lost liner.

Artist

Unknown

Date

6th century

Medium

Copper alloy

Culture

Byzantine

Department

Medieval Art

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1963