- Object name(s):
- Purificador
- Brief description:
- Purificador (incense burner), gold, Brazil, 1770-99.
- Brief description:
- Gold purificador consisting of a footed, tazza-like stand with a central hemispherical cup and cover similarly chased and surmounted by a baluster finial.
- Collection:
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Credit line:
- The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
- Current reproduction location:
- https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2010EJ5191/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg
- Location type:
- Thumbnail
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 22
- Dimension:
- Diameter
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 16
- Dimension:
- Circumference
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 50
- Material:
- gold
- Object name:
- Purificador
- Object number:
- LOAN:GILBERT.18:1-2008
- Object production date:
- 1770-1799
- Date - association:
- made
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1770-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 1799-12-31
- Object production place:
- Brazil
- Place association:
- made
- Other number:
- SG 301
- Other number type:
- Arthur Gilbert Number
- Other number:
- SG 311
- Other number type:
- Arthur Gilbert Number
- Physical description:
- Gold purificador consisting of a footed, tazza-like stand with a central hemispherical cup and cover similarly chased and surmounted by a baluster finial.
- Reproduction number:
- 2010EJ5191
- Reproduction number:
- 2010EJ5190
- Reproduction number:
- 2010EJ5142
- Reproduction number:
- 2010EJ5192
- Reproduction number:
- 2010EJ5141
- Reproduction number:
- 2010EJ5193
- Responsible department/section:
- MET
- Technique:
- chasing
- Technique:
- Gold, chased.
- Text:
- Sir Arthur Gilbert and his wife Rosalinde formed one of the world's great decorative art collections, including silver, mosaics, enamelled portrait miniatures and gold boxes. Arthur Gilbert donated his extraordinary collection to Britain in 1996.
- Text reason:
- Summary description
- Text reason:
- Collections online record
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/b2e43ec7-54c1-3d2e-bda0-5ce20f02e288
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/b2e43ec7-54c1-3d2e-bda0-5ce20f02e288, Victoria and Albert Museum, CC BY-NC
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