LaurieAnnie's photos with the keyword: box

Title: Box with Relief-decorated Lid Artist/Maker: Unknown Culture: Greek Place: Greece (Place created) Date: 350–310 B.C. Medium: Bronze Object Number: 96.AC.87 Dimensions: 4.7 × 9 × 6.4 cm (1 7/8 × 3 1/2 × 2 1/2 in.) Credit Line: Gift of Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman In a rocky landscape, a bearded silen or old satyr sits on the ground holding a thyrsos, a staff connected with Dionysiac cult. Satyrs were half-human creatures who were companions of Dionysos, the god of wine. This satyr relief decorates the lid of a box. A miniaturized bronze version of the sumptuous gold chests used by the royalty of Macedonia in the mid to late 300s B.C. to hold cremated funerary remains, this box may have held jewelry or other small precious items. The form of the box with its short plain legs and side rectangles imitates the construction of wooden chests. Two pegs on the front of the box and two on the top allowed the lid to be tied shut. The repoussé relief was made separately and soldered on to the lid. The relief was attached to the box in antiquity, but it is possible that it was originally intended to decorate another object. Text from: www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/29539/unknown-maker-box-with-relief-decorated-lid-greek-350-310-bc

Title: Box with Relief-decorated Lid Artist/Maker: Unknown Culture: Greek Place: Greece (Place created) Date: 350–310 B.C. Medium: Bronze Object Number: 96.AC.87 Dimensions: 4.7 × 9 × 6.4 cm (1 7/8 × 3 1/2 × 2 1/2 in.) Credit Line: Gift of Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman In a rocky landscape, a bearded silen or old satyr sits on the ground holding a thyrsos, a staff connected with Dionysiac cult. Satyrs were half-human creatures who were companions of Dionysos, the god of wine. This satyr relief decorates the lid of a box. A miniaturized bronze version of the sumptuous gold chests used by the royalty of Macedonia in the mid to late 300s B.C. to hold cremated funerary remains, this box may have held jewelry or other small precious items. The form of the box with its short plain legs and side rectangles imitates the construction of wooden chests. Two pegs on the front of the box and two on the top allowed the lid to be tied shut. The repoussé relief was made separately and soldered on to the lid. The relief was attached to the box in antiquity, but it is possible that it was originally intended to decorate another object. Text from: www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/29539/unknown-maker-box-with-relief-decorated-lid-greek-350-310-bc

Game Box Date: 14th century Culture: Italian Medium: Bone, wood, stain over wood core with paper and textile lining, metal mounts Dimensions: Overall: 2 11/16 x 7 11/16 x 6 5/16 in. (6.9 x 19.6 x 16.1 cm) Classification: Ivories-Bone Credit Line: Gift of The Salgo Trust for Education, New York, in memory of Nicolas M. Salgo, 2010 Accession Number: 2010.109.5 Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/1700...

Box for Game Pieces Bone, carved and originally painted Italian, Savoy (?), mid-15th century Accession # 54.135 Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label

Wood and Bone Hexagonal Casket Made in northern Italy, about 1400 Accession # 13.149.3 Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

Wood and Bone Hexagonal Casket Made in northern Italy, about 1400 Accession # 13.149.3 Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

Ivory Casket with the Deesis, Archangels, and the Twelve Apostles Byzantine Carved about 950-100, probably in Constantinople Accession # 17.190.238 On the lid of the casket is a Deesis composition showing Christ enthroned in majesty flanked by the Virgin, John the Baptist, and archangels. Roundels containing portraits of saints, identified by carefully carved Greek inscriptions decorate the sides of the casket; Saints Paul, Peter, James and Andrew on the front; Philip and Thomas on the right; Bartholomew and Simon on the left; and John, Mark, Luke, and Matthew on the back. Conservators have returned the casket to its original Byzantine condition by removing a lock plate and red and blue paint that had been added by later owners. Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

Ivory Casket with the Deesis, Archangels, and the Twelve Apostles Byzantine Carved about 950-100, probably in Constantinople Accession # 17.190.238 On the lid of the casket is a Deesis composition showing Christ enthroned in majesty flanked by the Virgin, John the Baptist, and archangels. Roundels containing portraits of saints, identified by carefully carved Greek inscriptions decorate the sides of the casket; Saints Paul, Peter, James and Andrew on the front; Philip and Thomas on the right; Bartholomew and Simon on the left; and John, Mark, Luke, and Matthew on the back. Conservators have returned the casket to its original Byzantine condition by removing a lock plate and red and blue paint that had been added by later owners. Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

Ivory Pyx with the Triumph of Dionysos in India Byzantine, said to have been found in Rome Made mid-500s, possibly in Syria Accession # 17.190.56 Dionysos, a son of Zeus, rides in his chariot overseeing the conquest of India as described by the fifth century Egyptian poet Nonnos of Panopolis: "Lord Bacchus [Dionysos] spoke... Indian slaying servants of invincible Dionysos! Bind them all fast unresisting, the sons of the Indians, take them all prisoners in bloodless conflict." Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

Title: Offering Box (Arca) and Key Artist/Maker: Unknown Culture: Gallo-Roman Places: Roman Empire (Place Created), Eastern Gaul (France), France (Place Found) Date: about A.D. 130–180 Medium: Bronze Object Number: 95.AC.29 Dimensions: 51 cm (20 1/16 in.) Credit Line: Gift of Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman Alternate Title: Offering Box and Key (Display Title) Department: Antiquities Classification: Vessels Object Type: Key Resting on a base supported by lions' paws, this bronze arca or offering box takes the form of a miniature hexagonal structure. A roof composed of six curved sections surmounts the six joined panels forming the body. A cutting on the top of the roof served as a deposit slot, and traces on either side of this slot show that a statuette originally stood on the top of the offering box. In order to empty the box, a small door on one side opened with a key. This offering box is said to have been found in France, in the Roman province of Gaul, along with the Pair of Portrait Busts and the Statuette of Mars/Cobannus. These pieces were probably displayed together in a local shrine of the Iuventus, a Roman youth organization. The offering box may have held the monthly dues of the members. Text from: www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/29623/unknown-maker-offering-box-arca-and-key-gallo-roman-about-ad-130-180