Inv. 167 C
Animals (panthers?); eagle; griffin (?); foliated decoration.
Cott 1939: Northern Italy, 13th-14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: Italy (?), 15th century
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive gilding.
Object Condition
Missing: lock. Cracked lid.
Provenance
Carrand collection: bequeathed by Louis Carrand (d. 1888) to the Museo del Bargello in 1888.
Bibliography
I. B. Supino, Catalogo del Regio Museo nazionale di Firenze (Rome, 1898), p. 249, no. 167.
P. B. Cott, Siculo-Arabic Ivories (Princeton, 1939), p. 48, no. 115.
La Casa italiana nei secoli. Mostra delle arti decorative in Italia dal Trecento all'Ottocento, exhibition catalogue, Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, 1948 [exhibited but not in catalogue].
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