Keywords: German - Censer - Walters 57699 - View A.jpg This censer made in Germany is typical of the style popular in western Europe at the end of the fifteenth century The intersecting raised bands mimic the complex vaulting systems used in late Gothic churches and the openwork areas are reminiscent of the tracery found in the windows of these buildings 1498 Early Modern gilded silver Overall H with chain cm 73 ; Body cm 25 4 11 6 ; Hanger cm 6 8 8 3 accession number 57 699 9570 Frédéric Spitzer Paris by purchase Sale Paul Chevallier and Charles Mannheim April 17 1893 no 347 Charles Borradaile Brighton by purchase George Robinson Harding London by purchase Henry Walters city Baltimore Acquired by Henry Walters 1912 Inscription On interior 1498 All that Glisters Thirty Centuries of Golden Deception Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration New York 1950 Love and War A Manual for Life in the Late Middle Ages National Gallery of Art Washington 1998-1999 Encompassing the Globe Freer Gallery of Art Washington 2007 place of origin Germany Walters Art Museum license Renaissance applied arts in the Walters Art Museum Medieval metalwork in the Walters Art Museum Thuribles German art in the Walters Art Museum |