BC/AD Sculpture Ancient to Modern
BC/AD Sculpture Ancient to Modern
ITALIAN, VENICE, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY | CASKET
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ITALIAN, VENICE, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY
CASKET
partially gilt, polychromed and ebonised wood set with mother-of-pearl
17 by 11.5 by 11.5cm., 6⅝ by 4½ by 4½in.
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Private collection, Italy;
Sotheby's London, 9 July 2015, lot 138;
private collection, Europe
Compare a similarly worked, richly decorated casket in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (inv. no. 17.190.848), and another illustrated in Lorenzelli and Veca (op. cit., p. 330, no. 458).
RELATED LITERATURE
P. Lorenzelli and A. Veca (eds.), Tra/e. Teche, pissidi, cofani e forzieri dall' Alto Medioevo al Barocco, exh. cat. Galleria Lorenzelli and Antiquaria Ltd, Bergamo, 1984