Perfume Burner Surmounted by a Satyr

Desiderio da Firenze

Date

ca. 1540–50

Type

Incense burner

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

Institution

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Object number

1975.1.1397

Credit

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975