LaurieAnnie's photos with the keyword: casket

Title: Coffret Date: 15th century Culture: French Medium: Leather, (stamped and tooled) with polychromy Dimensions: Overall: 8 3/8 x 13 5/8 x 7 3/4 in. (21.2 x 34.6 x 19.7 cm) Classification: Leatherwork Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1926 Accession Number: 26.284.1 Signatures, Inscriptions, and MarkingsInscriptions: Inscription in Gothic lettering: "AVE MARIA G--CIA -LEN DOMINVS TEC(um)." ("Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord be with you.") Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/mediev...

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 Birds and Animals Paint and gilded copper alloy mounts with glass South Italian, Sicily Carved 1200-1300 Accession # 1973.90 A peacock with exaggerated tail feathers as well as a circle with two concentric rings and four loops were common motifs in both ivory painting and carving in southern Italy. The various stones that decorate the metal fasteners were added at a later time, probably for a Western client. Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

Casket (cassetta) Date: late 15th century Culture: Italian, Ferrara Medium: Molded gesso on partly gilt wood (pastiglia) Dimensions: 3 1/8 × 4 1/8 × 6 3/8 in. (7.9 × 10.5 × 16.2 cm) Classification: Woodwork-Furniture Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917 Accession Number: 17.190.589 Description: Molded pastiglia, a composition consisting of either gesso or pulverized white lead with an egg binder to which musk was added, was applied to the surface of small caskets and deliberately left ungilt and unpainted, so that the relief exuded a musky scent. The technique was introduced to Ferrarese craftsmen at the end of the 1440s by a French immigrant, Carlo di Monlione. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/193569

Reliquary casket ("Emly Shrine") late 7th–early 8th century Place of Manufacture: Ireland Dimensions: 9.2 x 4.1 x 10.5 cm (3 5/8 x 1 5/8 x 4 1/8 in.) Material: Champlevé enamel on bronze over yew wood; gilt bronze moldings, inlay of lead-tin alloy Classification: Enamels Accession Number: 52.1396 On view in the Catalonian Chapel Gallery, in honor of I. W. Colburn - 254A Made to hold the sacred relics of a saint (often parts of the saint’s body), Irish house-shaped reliquaries have been discovered as far away as Norway and Italy—carried there by Irish pilgrims or Viking raiders. This one, however, was found in Ireland and is named for its nineteenth century owner, Lord Emly of Limerick. It is quite tiny and was probably hung from the neck or shoulder of its owner as a source of protection and spiritual strength. Text from: www.mfa.org/collections/object/reliquary-casket-emly-shri...