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Marriage Casket: Scenes of Lovers

Follower of the Embriachi Workshop, Italian, 14th–15th century

y1955-3261

Small keepsake boxes like this one were often used as gifts during courtship. In Florence, when two families agreed on the terms for a marriage, the suitor would present his intended with a casket of jewels before he gave her a ring.

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Information

Object Number

y1955-3261

Maker

Embriachi Workshop

Medium

Bone, cow horn, and wood intarsia

Dates

ca. 1390

Dimensions

15.5 x 21 x 12.5 cm (6 1/8 x 8 1/4 x 4 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. Edith Holt Bloodgood

Place Made

Europe, Italy, Venice or Florence

Type

ivories, caskets (personal gear)

Subject

plaques, angels, lovers, floral patterns, escutcheons (coats of arms), intarsia, relief, shields (armor), marriage

Materials

bone, wood, horn

Mrs. Edith Holt Bloodgood (1876-1961); 1955 gift to Princeton University Art Museum.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/i291443

"Recent acquisitions," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 15, no. 1 (1956): p. 26-27., p. 27

1832 1956

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20761913

Archer St. Clair, Elizabeth Parker McLachlan, The carver's art, Medieval sculpture in ivory, bone, and horn, (New Brunswick: Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, 1989)., cat. no. 26

2371 1989

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27975085

Richard Randall, The golden age of ivory: Gothic carvings in North American collections, (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1993)., p. 147; no. 233 (illus.)

3701 1993