Casket

12th century

Byzantine, Roman

On View

European: Medieval, Level 2, Central Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Casket

Artwork Date 12th century

Artist ----------

Life Dates ----------

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Roman

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Byzantine

Medium Bone over wood core

Dimensions Overall: 4 3/8 × 11 1/4 × 5 5/8 inches (11.1 × 28.6 × 14.3 cm)

Classification Furniture Accessories

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit City of Detroit Purchase

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 26.126

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Provenance

possibly Tadolini collection.
Achillito Chiesa (Milan, Italy);
April 16, 1926, sold by (American Art Association, New York, New York, USA) "The collection of Sr. Achillito Chiesa of Milan, part III," no. 375;
(F. Kleinberger, New York, New York, USA);
1926-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

The Collection of Achillito Chiesa Collection, Part III. XV-XVI Century Majolicas, Gothic Ivories; Early French and Italian Enamels, Renaissance Velvets, Brocades and Laces; Italian XV-XVI Century Furniture. Exh. cat., American Art Galleries. New York, 1926, no. 323 (ill.).

Eastman, A. "A Byzantine Ivory Coffer of the IX Century." Bulletin of the DIA 8, no. 2 (November 1926): pp. 16-19.

Eastman, A. "Byzantine Ivory Caskets in American Museums." Art in America 15, no. 4 (June 1927): p. 157ff.

Goldschmidt, A. and K. Weitzmann. Die byzantinischen Elfenbeinskulpturen des X.-XIII. Jahrhunderts, vol. I, Kasten. Berlin, 1930, p. 46, cat. no. 62 a-e; pl. XLI (ill.).

Lesley, P. Early Christian, Byzantine, and Romanesque Art. Exh. cat. Detroit, 1939, pp. 29-30; p. 29, fig. 7 (ill.); p. 61, note 25.

Early Christian and Byzantine Art. Exh. cat., Walters Art Gallery. Baltimore, 1947, p. 43, no. 121; pl. XXII (ill.).

Downey, G. "The Art of New Rome at Baltimore." Archaeology (Spring 1948): p. 29, fig. 9 (ill.).

Masterpieces of Art in Memory of W. R. Valentiner. Exh. cat., North Carolina Museum of Art. Raleigh, 1959, p. 24, no. 22 (ill.).

Martini, L. and C. Rizzardi, eds. Avori bizantini e medievali nel Museo Nazionale di Ravenna. Ravenna, 1990, pp. 40-41; p. 40, fig. 15 (ill.); p. 75; p. 118, figs. 37a-37b (ill.).

Cutler, A. The Hand of the Master: Craftsmanship, Ivory, and Society in Byzantium (Ninth to Eleventh Centuries). Princeton, 1994, p. 74, fig. 75 (ill.).

Walker, A. "Cross-cultural Reception in the Absence of Texts: The Islamic Appropriation of a Middle Byzantine Rosette Casket." Gesta 47, no. 2 (2008): p. 103; p. 104, fig. 8 (ill.).

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