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RARE NORMAN-ARAB-BYZANTINE BRONZE CENSER 11th - 12th century
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9.500,00 GBP
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2

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RARE NORMAN-ARAB-BYZANTINE BRONZE CENSER
11th - 12th century
height cm 11; diam cm 10
Bronze cup-shaped censer with extremely refined decoration, realized in repoussé technique. The decorative motives come from the Medieval Bestiaries repertoire and consist of: five wild beasts (a lion, a wolf, an antelope, a griffon and a deer), running in an open space, as an exotic garden; stylized palmette, volutes and flowers are geometrically arranged around the animals. The iconography derives from the beloved Bestiary tradition of Christianity. Each animal has a specific religious meaning: the deer is the Christian emblem of souls approached to the baptism, desirous of God; the griffon is the divine eternity, glorification and hypostasis; the lion is the strength. The style is connected with Oriental and Islamic heritage, visible on the graceful outlines of vegetal elements.

PROVENANCE
English private collection since 1960s, acquired with invoice.
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