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Here's a later fourteenth-century example (1350s) of a depiction of the _arma Christi_ showing a clearly upright brazier (it's Roberto Oderisi's Man of Sorrows, in the the Fogg at Harvard):
https://thejesusquestion.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/oderisi-roberto_the-man-of-sorrows.jpg
And here's a fifteenth-century example (1430s) of a depiction of the _arma Christi_ showing a clearly upright brazier (it's in the Last Judgment fresco in the chiesa di Santa Maria in Piano in Loreto Aprutino [PE] in Abruzzo):
http://tinyurl.com/qx6v62f
Paul Chandler's interpretation of the object as a brazier with a one-leg stand is better suited to the evidence than is my earlier suggestion that it's a brazier meant to be used flat and outfitted with a projecting handle in the same plane.
Best again,
John Dillon
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