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Maker/s | Embriachi family workshop [ULAN info: Italian carvers, 15th c.]
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Category |
sculpture
boxes (containers)
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Name |
casket
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School/Style |
Renaissance |
Description | Wood covered with bone plaques and ornamented with intarsia. The lower part is hexagonal. The pyramidal cover is surmounted by a knob of twelve faces with the original metal mount and ring. A curved frieze in six sections runs round the foot of the cover, on which are winged genii on a ground of foliage, those on the front supporting a plain shield and the one on the back holding in his left hand a 'flying-fish';. Each side of the casket has two plaques, each carved with two figures standing under a little mushroom-shaped tree. These plaques seem to illustrate a story derived from the literature of the Romance. At each corner is placed a spirally fluted column with capitals decorated with a double row of primitive acanthus leaves. |
Production Notes | The attribution needs investigation. Probably a wedding casket. |
Production Place | North Italy (workshop) (region) Italian (workshop) (nationality) |
Technique Description | wood, covered with bone plaques, and ornamented with intarsia |
Dimensions |
height: (whole): 24.5
cm
width: (whole): 23.0
cm
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Period | early 15th Century
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Date | circa 1400 to 1430 |
Provenance |
given:
Holden-White, Charles 1935 (Filtered for: Applied Arts collection) Unknown before donor
Given by Charles Holden-White
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Inscriptions/Marks | -
inscription
Position: on bottom
Method: in ink
Content: 92756
Interpretation:
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inscription
Position: on bottom
Method: scratched
Content: Andrea Pisano
Interpretation: earlier attribution to sculptor
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label
Position: on bottom
Method: inscribed
Content: By Embriacho circa 1420
Interpretation: attribution
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Documentation | - Dalton, Ormonde Maddock Catalogue of the Ivories of the British Museum, London [page: p. 136]
[comments: Ref. see p. 136] - Schlosser, Julius Die Werkstatt der Embriachi in Venedig,
Source title: Jahrbuch des Allerhochsten Kaiserhauses (1899)
[comments: Cf. Similar objects in the Museo Civico, Bologna, 220-282] - Theuerkauff, Christian (1984) Elfenbein, Sammlung Reiner Winkler, Munich [page: pp. 45-7]
[comments: Cf. A hexagonal casket with male and female figures round the main register, and putti among foliage on the lid, similar to those on the Fitzwilliam Museum and Walters Art Gallery boxes, pp. 45-7, cat. no. 17, ill. p. 46. Attributed to Venice, Workshop of the Embriacchi? mid-15th century. The author refers to other caskets and gives bibliography for them.] - Randall, Richard H. Jr. (1985) Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery, New York [page: pp. 196-7]
[comments: Cf. A hexagonal casket decorated with the life of Paris, and described as a marriage casket, see colour pl. 78 on p. 196, text on p. 197, and see p. 236, Cat. No. 355. Attributed to the Embriachi workshop, Venice, early 15th century. Reference is made to others in the Museo Civico Bologna, see J. Schlosser, 'Die Werkstatt der Embriachi in Venedig', Jahrbuch des Allerhochsten Kaiserhauses, 1899, 220-282.] - Sotheby's (1989) European Sculpture and Works of Art, London: Sotheby's [page: p. 12] 20 April 1989)
[comments: Cf. A hexagonal marriage casket attributed to the Embriachi Workshop, early 15th century, p. 12, lot 9. (Estimate £5,000-8,000) This has scenes on the sides, either from the story of Paris or that of Mattabruna, both of which involve abandonned children.] - Tomasi, Michele Baldassarre Ubriachi, le maïtre, le public, Colmar, Paris [page: 51-60]
Source title: Revue de l'Art (2001-4)
[comments: Ref. For the Ubriachi family]
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Other Notes | Cf. A large octagonal casket decorated with figures telling the story of Jason, in the Musée de Cluny, inv. no. CL 374, attributed to Venice, 15th century, workshop of the Embriachi. |
Accession Number | M.3-1935 (Applied Arts)
(Reference Number: 31815; Input Date: 2001-07-16 / Last Edit: 2011-07-22) |
