17.190.235
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17.190.235
- Identifier
- 17.190.235
- Transfer of custody
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Acquisition
- Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
- Collection
- Material
- Technique
- Velvet 65%
- Embroidery 98%
- Embroidery 72%
- Embroidery 99%
- Embroidery 69%
- Embroidery 98%
- Embroidery 99%
- Embroidery 66%
- Embroidery 99%
- Embroidery 91%
- Embroidery 97%
- Embroidery 86%
- Embroidery 74%
- Velvet 65%
- Depiction
- Floral motif 44%
- Vegetal motif 51%
- Vegetal motif 59%
- Geometrical motif 49%
- Geometrical motif 58%
- Geometrical motif 62%
- Geometrical motif 74%
- Geometrical motif 64%
- Geometrical motif 59%
- Geometrical motif 72%
- Geometrical motif 59%
- Floral motif 44%
- Production time
- Production place
Description
In scenes recalling antiquity, two panels on the lid of this casket show erotes (nude children), fighting (left) and playing music (right). The style of the animals represented on the four sides suggests that the carving was done by Italian artists drawing on Byzantine models.
