Sujet

Art Collections in the South Kensington Museum: Byzantine casket of bonework, set in ebony, 1869. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Art Collections in the South Kensington Museum: Byzantine casket of bonework, set in ebony, 1869. One of '...a variety of specimens of antique or foreign art-manufactures in the Loan Collection and other departments of the South Kensington Museum...One of these articles is a four-sided casket, about 10 in. in length and height, and 7 in. wide, composed of bone panels carved in low relief, with figures of warriors surrounded by a rosette border. The top consists of an ivory panel sculptured in high relief, with a representation of horsemen and men on foot engaged in combat. This top panel is a more ancient piece than the rest: it is supposed to be of Byzantine workmanship, and of the ninth or tenth century. The present setting (in ebony) is of the sixteenth or seventeenth century. This casket was presented to the museum by Mr. R. Goff'. From "Illustrated London News", 1869.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM24A34_168

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

14,0Mo (934,2Ko) / 21,8cm x 16,0cm / 2580 x 1891 (300dpi)

Mots clés

wood arts art box British museum decoration decorative wooden boxes Byzantine collection century Britain newspapers press bone print ivory artefact decorated ebony artifact B&W engraved engraving casket 19th century black & white black and white B W Byzantium nineteenth century The Print Collector Illustrated London News South Kensington Museum ILN newspaper object Byzantine Empire Unknown 19th-century The Illustrated London News