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Casket

Furniture

Anonymous

Nazarite period, 13th century (possibly 1268)

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Casket formed by a parallelepiped-shaped box and closed with a flat-topped four-way sloping lid. The outside is covered with thin pieces of ivory set on a sheet of gold over a thin piece of leather. The pieces are carved and decorated with the drill, forming profusely fretted motifs allowing the gold sheet underneath to be seen. The front of the lid has three rosettes, and there are five on the back and one on each side. The pieces covering the box present motifs of interlaced eight-pointed stars. This casket is an extraordinary example within the Andalusian production in the Nazarite period, both for the quality of the workmanship and for the exceptional use of the gold sheeting. On the plain parts of the pieces, there was pictorial decoration from the Gothic period (15th C).

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Location

Room18 ,Floor2

18 Leather

19 Gold, Silver and Metalworking Arts

20 Forge Work

21 Ceramics

22 Study Galleries

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PLACE OF EXECUTION

Al-Andalus

PERIOD

Nazarite period, 13th century (possibly 1268)

Material

Pine wood, carved and nailed, covered with 'badana' (low-quality leather) and gold sheet with ivory, carved, fretted and painted in tempera, applied and nailed. Bronze nailed

Dimensions

13.5 x 21 x 13.5 cm

Origin

Provenance unknown

WORK NUMBER

MEV 17829