Incense Burner and Stand for an Altar Cross
Cleveland Museum of Art

Incense Burner and Stand for an Altar Cross

1150–75

bronze: cast, gilded, engraved, and chased
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

This object may been have created for a traveling court with its entourage to use for Catholic Mass, where incense could be used in an easily transportable vessel.

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