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Casket with openwork panels (coffret; plaques ajourées) (Interior)

Casket with openwork panels (coffret; plaques ajourées) (Interior)
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Front

Front

End

Front

Back

End

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Interior

Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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La Spezia, Museo Civico Amedeo Lia

A120

Ivory;wood;metal;red leather

Height: 160mm
Width: 200mm
Depth: 130mm

Lid, front
Saint George and the dragon; horse; armour; spear; dog; castle.
Other sides of the lid
Flamboyant tracery.
Body, front
Griffin; lion.
End, right
Foliated decoration; flamboyant tracery.
Body, back
Flamboyant tracery; lion with foliated tail.
End, left
Flamboyant tracery.

Giusti 1999: German, 19th century, in a German late 15th-century style.
Williamson and Davies 2014: German, 19th century (?).


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved on all sides.

Provenance
Acquired on the art market, Paris.

Bibliography
Tra/E: Teche, pissidi, confani e forzieri dall'Alto Medioevo al Barocco, ed. by A. Veca and P. Lorenzelli, exhibition catalogue, Bergamo, Galleria Lorenzelli, October - December 1984 and London, Antiquaria L.T.D., March - April 1985, pp. 187, 357, no. 23.
P. Giusti in Museo Civico Amedeo Lia: Sculture e oggetti d'arte (I cataloghi del Museo Civico Amedeo Lia), ed. by M. Ratti and A. Marmori (La Spezia, 1999), no. 2.43.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 239 and 240.


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