Covered dish (censer) with "chimney" set in jar with seashell decoration
Third or 4th century A.D.
Medium/TechniqueBronze
Credit LineBequest of Charles H. Parker, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William de Forest Thomson, and the Estate of Dana Estes, by exchange
Accession number1997.185
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ProvenanceBy 1997: with Brian T. Aitken, Acanthus, 22 East 80th Street, New York 10021 (reported by him to have come from a private collection in the Suisse Romande, where it had been since the early 1970s); purchased by MFA from Brian T. Aitken, November 19, 1997
about 550–530 B.C.
about 2400 B.C.
mid-7th century B.C.
about seventh century B.C.
about 650 B.C.
late 7th century B.C.
late 7th–early 6th century B.C.
about 525–500 B.C.