IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 31578 accession number: M.18-1904 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Casket of wood covered with ivory plaques fixed with bone pegs. The casket is rectangular with a projecting moulding round the base. The lid has a low rectangular truncated pyramid in the middle surrounded by a flat border. Each side of the casket is decorated with two sunk panels, each carved with a beast (four of griffins, two of lions, and two of bears) , framed by narrow plaques carved with formal rosettes. The sunk panels are flanked by narrow strips of polychrome intarsia work. The lid has a rectangular panel carved with a lion and a griffin confronted and two pairs of acanthus scrolls. The border is carved with scrolling foliage and bunches of grapes. title: rosette casket NOTES ----- type: history note value: Frédéric Spitzer, Paris; Spitzer Collection, vol. I, p. 30, no. 5; Frank McClean. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Frank McClean creditline: McClean Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/31578 TECHNIQUES ---------- casket of wood with ivory plaques fixed with bone pegs carving CATEGORIES ------ category: sculpture DATING ------ creation date: 1100 - 1200 creation date earliest: 1100 creation date latest: 1200 culture: 12th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 14.7 dimension: Length units: cm value: 24.9 dimension: Width units: cm value: 19.4 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: An Exhibition of Carvings in Ivory title: Byzantium, Treasures of Byzantine Art and Culture from British Collections CITATIONS -------- Vienna Jahrbuch XX L'épopée byzantine à la fin du dixième siècle Fitzwilliam Museum, McClean Bequest, Catalogue of the Medieval Ivories, Enamels, Jewellery, Gems, and Miscellaneous Objects bequeathed to the Museum by Frank McClean, M.A., F.R.S. Die byzantinischen Elfenbeinskulpturen des X.-XIII. Jahrhunderts I: Kasten Byzantium, Treasures of Byzantine Art and Culture Byzantium - Venice - Manchester: an early thirteenth-century carved marble basin and British Byzantinism at the turn of the twentieth century --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_18_1904.jpg height: 581 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_M_18_1904.jpg height: 382 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_18_1904.jpg height: 581 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_M_18_1904.jpg height: 191 pixels width: 250 pixels