Perfume Burner Surmounted by a Satyr

Desiderio da Firenze

Date

ca. 1530–40

Type

Incense burner

Medium

Binary alloy (copper, tin, with traces of zinc, iron, nickel, silver, and antimony); a brown to olive green patina and minor traces of gilding.

Department

Robert Lehman Collection

Institution

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Object number

1975.1.1396

Credit

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975