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Casket (coffret) (Lid)

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Front

End, right

Bottom

Body, back

Body, front

End, left

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Subject
Secular.

Repository Institution
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London, Victoria and Albert Museum

1268-1855

Ivory;bone;silk (lining);brass;wood

Height: 68 mm
Width: 130 mm
Depth: 81 mm

Lid
Foliated decoration; flowers (roses?).
Body, front and body, back
Foliated decoration; thistle.
End, right and end, left
Foliated decoration; flowers (roses?).
Crosshatched background.

Williamson and Davies 2014: South Netherlandish, 1440-70.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved on all sides.

Object Condition
Missing: corner strips at the bottom, lining, base and fittings (all probably 19th-century replacements).

Provenance
Purchased by the museum in 1855.

Bibliography
W. Maskell, Ivories Ancient and Mediaeval in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1872), p. 3.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 237

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