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1600 / 1610, London

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Victoria and Albert MuseumVictoria and Albert Museum
Identifier
24-1865
Collection
Metalwork Collection
Technique
  • Embroidery 90%
  • Embroidery 99%
  • Embroidery 80%
  • Embroidery 80%
  • Embroidery 92%
  • Embroidery 88%
Depiction
  • Floral motif 62%
  • Floral motif 54%
  • Geometrical motif 70%
Dimension
15.1 cm (diameter)
12.4 cm (diameter)
19 cm (height)
1.896 kg (weight)
Production time
1600 / 1610
16th century (dates CE)
17th century (dates CE)
Production place
London

Description

British Galleries: This casket may have held medicines and perfumes in small containers. Carved English alabaster had long been associated with high status. It was smooth and fine-grained and had been used for luxury objects of all sizes since Medieval times. [27/03/2003] Object Type
Luxurious personal items made from precious metals and hardstones were used to show taste and social status.

History & Design
Alabaster was highly prized and often transformed into spectacular objects by the addition of gold or silver-gilt mounts. (The same mounts are found on a mother-of-pearl bowl also in the Museum's collection.) The taste for these small, precious objects lasted throughout the 16th century and into the early 17th century.

Material & Making
Ancient alabaster is a hard, carbonate mineral, often called 'oriental' alabaster as it was said to have come from the town of Alabastron, in Egypt. This example is made from 'modern' alabaster, a soft, finely-grained variety of gypsum, or limestone. It probably originated in the large deposits found in Britain, in the Midlands, which were extensively worked from the 14th century. The soft material is easy to carve and can be highly polished. The Dyneley Casket

The data contained in ADASilk comes from the archives of Art Institute of Chicago, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, CDMT Terrassa, Europeana, Gallica, Garín 1820, Joconde Database of French Museum Collections, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mobilier International, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Musée des Tissus, Musei di Venezia, Museo de Arte Sacro El Tesoro de la Concepción, Paris Musées, Red Digital de Colecciones de Museos de España, Rhode Island School of Design, Sicily Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian, Versailles, Victoria and Albert Museum. The Virtual Loom and Spatio-Temporal Maps visualizations have been developed by Universitat de Valencia. ADASilk is based on a generic exploratory search engine for knowledge graphs being developed at EURECOM and includes scientific contributions from Universitat de Valencia, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Lyon 2, Universita Degli Studi di Palermo, GARIN 1820 S.A., Institut Jozef Stefan, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universitaet Hannover, Monkeyfab, and Instituto Cervantes.

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