Gothic Ivories Project | Openworks panels decorating a casket (coffret; plaque ajourée) (Body, front)

Openworks panels decorating a casket (coffret; plaque ajourée) (Body, front)

Openworks panels decorating a casket (coffret; plaque ajourée) (Body, front)

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Florence, Museo Nazionale del Bargello

Inv. 166 C

Ivory;walnut;ebony;bone

Height: 200mm
Width: 270mm
Depth: 186mm

Musicians, dancers and jesters.Lid: pygmies fighting insects; pygmies riding fantastical animals.

Museum's opinion 2012: France, 15th century (ivory) - 16th century (wooden casket).

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carvings on all sides.

Object Condition
A few missing parts.

Provenance
Carrand collection: bequeathed by Louis Carrand (d. 1888) to the Museo del Bargello in 1888.

Bibliography
I. B. Supino, Catalogo del Regio Museo nazionale di Firenze (Rome, 1898), p. 249, no. 166.

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