Casket with Painted Roundels

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 457

The motifs featured on this casket—peacocks, gazelles, lions, small birds with branches in their beaks, and arabesque patterns—occur frequently in a variety of media in the south Mediterranean around this time. However, here the roundels enclosing these motifs are not interlaced as they usually are. Painted ivories such as this one are thought to have been mass-produced rather than made by special commission. The metal mounting with glass, quartz, and turquoise inserts was added at a later period.

Casket with Painted Roundels, Ivory, painted; gilded silver mounts with glass, quartz, and turquoise inlays

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Casket with Painted Roundels, Ivory, painted; gilded silver mounts with glass, quartz, and turquoise inlays
Casket with Painted Roundels, Ivory, painted; gilded silver mounts with glass, quartz, and turquoise inlays
Casket with Painted Roundels, Ivory, painted; gilded silver mounts with glass, quartz, and turquoise inlays
Casket with Painted Roundels, Ivory, painted; gilded silver mounts with glass, quartz, and turquoise inlays
Casket with Painted Roundels, Ivory, painted; gilded silver mounts with glass, quartz, and turquoise inlays
Casket with Painted Roundels, Ivory, painted; gilded silver mounts with glass, quartz, and turquoise inlays
Casket with Painted Roundels, Ivory, painted; gilded silver mounts with glass, quartz, and turquoise inlays
Casket with Painted Roundels, Ivory, painted; gilded silver mounts with glass, quartz, and turquoise inlays
Casket with Painted Roundels, Ivory, painted; gilded silver mounts with glass, quartz, and turquoise inlays
Casket with Painted Roundels, Ivory, painted; gilded silver mounts with glass, quartz, and turquoise inlays
Casket with Painted Roundels, Ivory, painted; gilded silver mounts with glass, quartz, and turquoise inlays
Casket with Painted Roundels, Ivory, painted; gilded silver mounts with glass, quartz, and turquoise inlays
Casket with Painted Roundels, Ivory, painted; gilded silver mounts with glass, quartz, and turquoise inlays
Casket with Painted Roundels, Ivory, painted; gilded silver mounts with glass, quartz, and turquoise inlays
Casket with Painted Roundels, Ivory, painted; gilded silver mounts with glass, quartz, and turquoise inlays
Casket with Painted Roundels, Ivory, painted; gilded silver mounts with glass, quartz, and turquoise inlays
Casket with Painted Roundels, Ivory, painted; gilded silver mounts with glass, quartz, and turquoise inlays

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