Gothic Ivories Project | Casket with arches, bands of rosettes (frise d'arcatures; décor de roses) (Interior)

Casket with arches, bands of rosettes (frise d'arcatures; décor de roses) (Interior)

Casket with arches, bands of rosettes (frise d'arcatures; décor de roses) (Interior)

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Subject
Religious. Infancy of Christ.

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New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

30.95.116

Ivory;metal (lock;fittings)

Height: 85mm
Depth: 66mm

Lid
Medallion enclosing a quatrefoil. Pointed trefoils in the spandrels. Rosettes.
Body, back
Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit; angel holding a navette and swinging a censer; throne.
End, left
Visitation; seated Joseph (part of the Nativity scene).
Body, front
Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds.
End, right
Adoration of the Magi.

Museum's opinion 2012: France, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Reverse of panels flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Cracks.

Provenance
Collection of Michel Boy, Paris: his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 13-14 May 1905, lot 282. Theodore M. Davis Collection, New York: bequest of Theodore M. Davis to the Museum in 1915.

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