Inv. 2924
Camps Cazorla 1949-1950: 13th-14th century.
Camón Aznar 1951: early 16th-century drawings.
Domínguez Perela 1986: 14th century.
Galán y Galindo 2005: 13th-century (?) Siculo-Arabic casket with interior decoration and some of the metal fittings possibly from the 14th century; early 15th-century drawings.
Museum's opinion 2013: 13th-century (?) Siculo-Arabic casket with late 19th- or early 20th-century drawings in a 16th-century Germanic style.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Later drawings of kings and heroes on all sides (for full details, see main description).
Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Object Condition
The upper part of the lid is cracked. The lower strip of the left end seems to be a later replacement.
Comments
Galán y Galindo offers to identify the kings with kings of Sicily (see Galán y Galindo 2005 for full details and identification).
Provenance
In the Museo Lázaro Galdiano by 1949.
Bibliography
E. Camps Cazorla, Inventario del Museo Lázaro Galdiano (1949-1950, unpublished).
J. Camón Aznar, Guía abreviada del Museo Lázaro Galdiano (Madrid, 1951), p. 75.
E. Domínguez Perela, Eboraria islámica. Las arquetas del Museo Lázaro Galdiano, in Revista Goya 193-195 (1986), p. 81.
A. Galán y Galindo, Marfiles medievales del Islam (Cordoba, 2005), II, pp. 320-329, no. 18002.
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