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Casket (coffret) (Bottom)
Casket (coffret) (Bottom)
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Body, front


Lid

Side, left

Body, back

Side, right

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Subject
Religious. Secular. Hunting scene.

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Turin, Palazzo Madama-Museo Civico d'Arte Antica

Inv. 181/AV

Ivory;gilt iron

Height: 130mm
Width: 190mm
Depth: 110mm

Lid
Hunter; dogs; boar.
Body, front, back and ends
Twelve apostles.
Crosshatched background. Foliated decoration. Checkered pattern on the bottom.

Mallé 1969, Turin 1996 and Museum's opinion 2010: Northern Italy, 2nd half of the 15th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive traces of gilding and polychromy (green).

Object Condition
The panels may not all be in their original position (Turin 1996).

Comments
Known between ca. 1950 and 1987 as Inv. 185.

Provenance
Collection of princes Trivulzio (Milan); bought from prince Luigi Alberico Trivulzio through the antique dealer Pietro Accorsi (Turin) in 1940.

Bibliography
L. Mallé, Smalti-Avori. Museo d'Arte Antica (Turin, 1969), pl. 158.
Il tesoro della città. Opere d'arte e oggetti preziosi da Palazzo Madama, ed. by S. Pettenati, G. Romano, exhibition catalogue, Turin, Palazzo Madama-Museo Civico d'Arte Antica, 1996, no. 402.


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