IDENTIFIERS
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id:	31578
accession number:	M.18-1904

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 18 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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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
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type: history note
value: Frédéric Spitzer, Paris;  Spitzer Collection, vol. I, p. 30, no. 5; Frank McClean.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	Frank McClean
creditline: McClean Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/31578





TECHNIQUES
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casket of wood with ivory plaques fixed with bone pegs
carving

CATEGORIES
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category: sculpture

DATING
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creation date:	1100 - 1200
creation date earliest:	1100
creation date latest:	1200
culture:	12th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 14.7

dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 24.9

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 19.4



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	An Exhibition of Carvings in Ivory
title:	Byzantium, Treasures of Byzantine Art and Culture from British Collections
CITATIONS
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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
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