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Description: | Artist: Unknown, maker;
Production Place: England; Date(s): circa 1170 - 1200; Classification(s): enamels, casket, champlevé enamelling; Acquisition: bequeathed by McClean, Frank, 1904, Frank McClean Bequest [M.27-1904]
Description: Copper, engraved, champlevé, enamelled, and gilded, with applied repoussé silver plaques, the box interior of wood
(modern, date uncertain). Rectangular with a lid of truncated pyramidal form. The sides are overlaid with thin D-shaped plates of silver embossed with figures of angels; the spandrels have embossed vine scrolls in gold. Along the top of the lid there is a strip of silver embossed with palmettes, the rest is covered with champlevé enamel. | 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: | casket Unknown enamels | Temporal: | name=early 13th Century; start=1170; end=1200 | 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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