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Incense Burner

Syria (Mamluk Sultanate, 1250-1517), Around 1280-90

Aromatics were prized in the medieval Islamic world for ceremonial and personal use, and finely inlaid incense burners were used by courtiers and wealthy patrons. This piece comprises interlocking hemispheres...

Dish with one of the Magi

16th century, Italy (Deruta)

Aromatics were prized in the medieval Islamic world for ceremonial and personal use, and finely inlaid incense burners were used by courtiers and wealthy patrons. This piece comprises interlocking hemispheres...

The Entombment

Attributed to Robert Campin

Aromatics were prized in the medieval Islamic world for ceremonial and personal use, and finely inlaid incense burners were used by courtiers and wealthy patrons. This piece comprises interlocking hemispheres...

Helena Fourment

Peter Paul Rubens

The richly dressed young woman depicted here, holding a prayer book in one hand and drawing back her veil with the other, is Helena Fourment, the daughter of an Antwerp...

The Family of Jan Brueghel the Elder

Peter Paul Rubens

Aromatics were prized in the medieval Islamic world for ceremonial and personal use, and finely inlaid incense burners were used by courtiers and wealthy patrons. This piece comprises interlocking hemispheres...

Seated Woman

Henri Matisse

This drawing is a study for a painting that Matisse executed in the summer of 1919. The sitter is Antoinette Arnoux, who modelled for the artist for two years. During...

 Landscape by Moonlight

Peter Paul Rubens

Aromatics were prized in the medieval Islamic world for ceremonial and personal use, and finely inlaid incense burners were used by courtiers and wealthy patrons. This piece comprises interlocking hemispheres...

Chair with Floral Seat Back

Attributed to Roger Fry (1866–1934) for the Omega Workshops Ltd, embroidered by Winifred Gill (1891–1981) or Vanessa Bell (1879–1961), 1913

Aromatics were prized in the medieval Islamic world for ceremonial and personal use, and finely inlaid incense burners were used by courtiers and wealthy patrons. This piece comprises interlocking hemispheres...

Enamel plaque set in a gilt bronze Pax

Pseudo-Monvaerni Master (active around 1479-1500), 1470-1500

Aromatics were prized in the medieval Islamic world for ceremonial and personal use, and finely inlaid incense burners were used by courtiers and wealthy patrons. This piece comprises interlocking hemispheres...

Studies for Saint Mary Magdalene

Leonardo da Vinci

The richly dressed young woman depicted here, holding a prayer book in one hand and drawing back her veil with the other, is Helena Fourment, the daughter of an Antwerp...

Nevermore

Paul Gauguin

Aromatics were prized in the medieval Islamic world for ceremonial and personal use, and finely inlaid incense burners were used by courtiers and wealthy patrons. This piece comprises interlocking hemispheres...

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