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Ciborium casket from Tavertet

Furniture

Anonymous

First quarter of the 14th century

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It is made up of a receptacle, box or casket formed by a parallelepiped-shaped box with a four-way sloping lid, resting on a foot and a stand made from a single piece of turned boxwood, set in the bottom. The casket is decorated on the outside with modelled stucco reliefs: each of the sides, framed round the edge by a small baguette moulding, is decorated with undulating elongated S-shaped stalks with foliage and pearls in relief on the background. The stucco decoration may have had a covering of gold (similar to other objects made with the same decorative technique), although we cannot rule out that it was silver gilt, now lost due to oxidation. The foot is profusely moulded and the stand, decorated with incisions, presents a double knot at the top.

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Location

Room 18 , Floor 2

18 Leather

19 Gold, Silver and Metalworking Arts

20 Forge Work

21 Ceramics

22 Study Galleries

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PLACE OF EXECUTION

Catalonia

PERIOD

First quarter of the 14th century

Material

Wood carved, covered with moulded stucco possibly gilded and with a wooden stand of turned boxwood

Dimensions

20 x 13 x 9 cm

Origin

From the church of Sant Cristòfol in Tavertet (Osona)

WORK NUMBER

MEV 4672