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Perfume Burner Surmounted by a Satyr
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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).
Robert Lehman Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Robert Lehman Collection 1975
Title: Perfume Burner Surmounted by a Satyr
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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).
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