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Siculo-Arabic carved ivory casket

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An image of Sculpture / Casket. Unknown Maker. Rectangular casket of ivory, lined with velvet. The gilded metal mounts have bulbous points with tapering ends. A gilt metal handle is placed in the centre of the lid and of two sides. Decoration consists of small engraved patterns of concentric circles around a dot with smaller circles at the cardinal points. They are placed around the edges of the box, mainly to mask the oval marks of the dowels. School/Style: Siculo-Arabic. Production Place: Sicily. Circa 1200-1330.

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Sculpture / Casket. Unknown Maker. Rectangular casket of ivory, lined with velvet. The gilded metal mounts have bulbous points with tapering ends. A gilt metal handle is placed in the centre of the lid and of two sides. Decoration consists of small engraved patterns of concentric circles around a dot with smaller circles at the cardinal points. They are placed around the edges of the box, mainly to mask the oval marks of the dowels. School/Style: Siculo-Arabic. Production Place: Sicily. Circa 1200-1330.

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  • Accession Number: M.5-1935
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/39.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
  • Photographer name: Amy Jugg
  • Image height: 784 pixels
  • Image width: 1024 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 85.56kB
  • Exposure time: 1/90
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 39/1
  • Captured: 2013:01:31 16:12:24

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13th Century 14th Century Arabic box casket Fitz_AA gilded ivory Medieval mount Sicilian

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