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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1370 - circa 1400; Classification(s): sculpture, casket, carving, ivory casket with champlev? enamelled silver mounts; Acquisition: bought by Sotheby's, 1945-11-12, Purchased with the Leverton Harris Fund [M.13-1945]
Description: Ivory, carved in relief, with contemporary champlev? 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. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | sculpture casket Unknown | Temporal: | name=late 14th Century; start=1370; end=1400 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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