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Ivory Casket (open CG 011)
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| Photographer |
Justin Gawke |
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| Title |
Ivory Casket (open CG 011) |
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| Description |
A hip-roofed ivory casket with copper gilt mounts. It has a Siculo-Arabic origin. The casket retains its original hinges and hinge straps with the remaining mounts being added later. The casket rests on four claw feet. A lock-plate wrought in the form of a flower and set with a Gallo-Roman agate cameo and a green glass paste is attached to the centre of the front panel. On the lid there are two ball finials to the left and right and a centre finial ending in a flower head set with blue glass. |
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| Date | 7 September 2020, 00:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | Ivory, Metal -- Copper (gilded), Mineral -- Silica -- Quartz -- Agate, Glass | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | H 19.5 x W 19 x D 11.5 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Collections and Exhibitions |
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CG 011 |
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| Object history | File of material relating to a reliquary casket. Includes photocopy of image of object (date unspecified); photocopies of extracts from catalogue of sale issued by Sothebys (c. 10 June 1969) which variously state that the casket is of the collections of Prince Hohenzollern at Schloss Sigmaringen and is the property of Baron de Bonstetten; photocopy of manuscript description of chest (date unspecified) said to have similarities to the present casket; colour photographs of the lockplate (date unspecified); material relating to conservation work carried out on the casket including treatment proposals report and hard copies of scanned colour photographs taken during conservation work (c. December 1996-7 December 1998); letters in English and German (summary translations present) and photocopies of same (28 August 1969-11 November 1969) from Professor Hans Wentzel, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, University of Stuttgart, variously to John Hunt, Senior, or Gertrude Hunt, in relation to the casket. One letter states that he knows something of the history of the casket during the nineteenth century. Later letter suggests that this information refers to the Sigmaringen provenance mentioned above. Another letter suggests that Wentzel was planning to publish a journal paper pertaining to the casket; paper by R.H. Pinder and Professor C.N.L. Brooke entitled ‘The Reliquary of St. Petroc and the Ivories of Norman Sicily’ (read on 12 November 1970). | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | Hunt Museum | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Source | Hunt Museum | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Permission (Reusing this file) |
Public Domain via Hunt Museum | ||||||||||||||||||||
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