English: This incense boat, called a navicula (Latin for "little boat"), was used to store the incense that was burned as part of many church rituals, including the Mass. The boat has curved dragon-headed handles on the lid for the symbolic protection of the incense, a combination of frankincense and myrrh. The burning of incense was considered both an offering to God and an act of purification.
Sale, Georges Petit, Paris, April 4-7, 1906, no. 205
Octave Pincot, Paris, 1906, by purchase
Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne, 1964, by purchase
Keir Collection (Edmund de Unger), London, 1971, by purchase
Keir Collection Sale, Sotheby's, New York, November 20, 1997, no. 87
Walters Art Museum, 1997, by purchase
Exhibition history
Medieval Enamels: Masterpieces from the Keir Collection. The British Museum, London. 1981-1982. Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, Luzern. Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich. 1964. Mittelalterliche Kunst der Sammlung Kofler-Truniger. Suermondt Museum, Aachen. 1965. Highlights from the Collection. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1998-2001. Vive la France! French Treasures from the Middle Ages to Monet. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1999-2000.
Credit line
Museum purchase with funds provided by the Richard H. Randall, Jr., Memorial Fund and the W. Alton Jones Foundation Acquisition Fund, 1997
This work is free and may be used by anyone for any purpose. If you wish to use this content, you do not need to request permission as long as you follow any licensing requirements mentioned on this page.
The Wikimedia Foundation has received an e-mail confirming that the copyright holder has approved publication under the terms mentioned on this page. This correspondence has been reviewed by a Volunteer Response Team (VRT) member and stored in our permission archive. The correspondence is available to trusted volunteers as ticket #2012021710000834.
This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.
You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States.
to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.htmlGFDLGNU Free Documentation Licensetruetrue
Captions
Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents
== {{int:filedesc}} == {{Walters Art Museum artwork |artist = French |title = ''Incense Boat'' |description = {{en|This incense boat, called a navicula (Latin for "little boat"), was used to store the incense that was burned ...