IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 31717 accession number: M.13-1945 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Ivory, carved in relief, with contemporary champlevé enamelled silver mounts. Lid: Under six cusped arches with crocketted gables stand the figures of St Agnes, St Paul, St Peter, St John the Baptist, St Stephen, and St Catherine. Sides: Carved with scenes from the Martyrdom of St Catherine: her examination before Maxentius, the burning of the philosophers, the torture of the wheel, the beheading of the saint and her soul carried up to heaven. Mounts: Decorated alternately with panels of red, green and blue with pelican-like birds, salamanders and other fabulous beasts reserved in the metal. Lock-plate: Decorated with a hare in a field against a dark blue sky. title: casket NOTES ----- type: history note value: Coll. of the Rev. Theodore Mayo (according to label on base). 1878: Exhibited on loan at South Kensington Museum. 1923: Exhibited at Burlington Fine Arts Club (cat. no. 137) - lent by Sir William Laurance. Sold Sotheby's, 16th November 1945, Catalogue of Fine Continental, English and Chinese Porcelain, French and English Furniture and Works of Art, p. 22, the Property of a Lady, lot 96, illustrated opposite p. 2; sold for £460 to the Fitzwilliam Museum LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased with the Leverton Harris Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/31717 PEOPLE ------------------- St Agnes St Peter St Paul St John the Baptist St Stephen St Catherine of Alexandria Maxentius SUBJECTS ------------------- wheel pelican salamander hare fantastic creatures wheel pelican salamander hare fantastic creatures CATEGORIES ------ category: sculpture DATING ------ creation date: 1370 - 1400 creation date earliest: 1370 creation date latest: 1400 culture: 14th Century, Late culture: Medieval CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 6.4 dimension: Height units: cm value: 4.4 dimension: Width units: cm value: 9.6 CITATIONS -------- Les ivoires gothiques français --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/M_13_1945_1_201301_adn21_dc2.jpg height: 757 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/mid_M_13_1945_1_201301_adn21_dc2.jpg height: 370 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/M_13_1945_1_201301_adn21_dc2.jpg height: 757 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/preview_M_13_1945_1_201301_adn21_dc2.jpg height: 185 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/m_13_1945_2_201106_mfj22_dc2.jpg 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