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Casket (coffret) (Body, front)

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Body, back

Lid

End, left

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Subject
Secular.

Repository Institution
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Verdun, Musée de la Princerie

Inv. 85.6.10

Ivory;bronze (fittings)

Height: 125mm
Width: 210mm
Depth: 112mm

On all sides: hanks of wool, yarn or linen between flowery bushes (heraldic device?). Carved inscription: letter E (or C?) in Gothic script.
Crosshatched background.

Pagnotta 2002: France (Paris?), 15th century.
Museum's opinion 2012: France (Paris), 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
One hinge missing.

Reverse
Carved on all sides.

Object Condition
Missing: lock.

Provenance
Bequeathed to the city of Verdun at the death of Canon de Plaine (Chanoine de Plaine) in 1805; given by the city to the Société Philomathique, owner of the museum collection, in 1853.

Bibliography
P. Pagnotta, Autour d'une collection d'ivoires à Commercy (Commercy, 2002), p. 50.

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