Casket
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1500
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A gilt wood and metal casket depicting a scene. Oblong box with projecting base and cover, four flattened ball feet, and rosette and round knob-sides and cover gilt and punch-marked. Moulded and carved reliefs representing on front the Calydonian Boar Hunt; on back, the Judgment of Paris; on sides, the Baptism of the Samarians by Philip and Judith. On cover, two pairs of winged genii holding wreaths. Pilasters on corners, acanthus moulding on base and lower part of cover. Moulding with oak leaves on cover, which is hinged to body with simple eyelet hinges. Part of snap lock on front--corresponding part on cover missing.
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase from Friends of the Museum Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1953-101-1
objectType: label: Type
content: containers
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Type
content: Casket
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Wood, pastiglia decoration, gilding, metal
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 10.4 x 11 x 16 cm (4 1/8 x 4 5/16 x 6 5/16 in.)