Art, literature & history
Large Bronze Dragon Incense Burner
1882–1883
- Dating
- Date range
- Medium
- Etching, drypoint, and roulette; between states two and three of three
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 20 1/8 in. × 14 in. (51.1 × 35.6 cm) Plate: 12 1/16 × 8 1/2 in. (30.6 × 21.6 cm) Image: 9 3/4 × 7 11/16 in. (24.8 × 19.5 cm)
- Collection no.
- 2018.906.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Henri-Charles Guérard. Large Bronze Dragon Incense Burner. Henri-Charles Guérard; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Madeleine Fidell-Beaufort, in memory of Janine Bailly-Herzberg, 2018. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
Large Bronze Dragon Incense Burner — Henri-Charles Guérard. 1882–1883.
Medium: Etching, drypoint, and roulette; between states two and three of three. Dimensions: Sheet: 20 1/8 in. × 14 in. (51.1 × 35.6 cm) Plate: 12 1/16 × 8 1/2 in. (30.6 × 21.6 cm) Image: 9 3/4 × 7 11/16 in. (24.8 × 19.5 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Gift of Madeleine Fidell-Beaufort, in memory of Janine Bailly Herzberg, 2018.
This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.